[computer-go] How to improve my minimax speed?

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Darren Cook" <darren at dcook.org>
To: "computer-go" <computer-go at computer-go.org>
Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:48 PM
Subject: Re: [computer-go] How to improve my minimax speed?


>> My simple idea is to analyze first moves near the last move on board,
>> ...
>> Ofcourse we can extend this idea by gathering not only one last move but
>> few of them and on this basis create priority queue.
>
> Sounds reasonable. But it will still require you to go through far too
> many moves. The more sophisticated way would be to use a pattern
> library, either hand-crafted or automatically harvested.

Did I understand You correctly and You saying that some moves shouldn't be 
analyzed at all?