[computer-go] IEEE Spectrum article by Deep Blue creator

[Heikki Levanto]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:27:28PM -0400, Don Dailey wrote:
> I don't believe null move pruning will be  effective in Go.  The basic
> principle of null move pruning has been described in a couple of ways:
> 
>   1. threat analysis
>   2. bounds checking.

In go terms, doesn't that translate to something like understanding sente?
And to the problems of local sente vs. global sente?

-H

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