[computer-go] The global search myth

[Erik van der Werf]

On Dec 5, 2007 5:01 PM, Álvaro Begué <alvaro.begue at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2007 9:33 AM, Erik van der Werf <erikvanderwerf at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Look for Realization Probability Search.
>
> Oh, thanks! I knew it was too natural to be original. Well, I actually
> thought about it around 1998, so it might have been new back then.

Maybe, but the closely related idea of adding fractional plies for
search extensions has been around quite long. I would not be surprised
if some Chess engines already used it in the 90's (but of course
nobody would talk about it).

Erik