In computer chess programs, the null-move heuristic is a heuristic technique used to enhance the speed of the alpha–beta pruning algorithm. Alpha–beta...

or other games in which a null move, if it were allowed, would be better than any other move), and the null-move heuristic in game tree analysis (a method...

pruning but slightly more efficient in some settings). There is Null-move heuristic. There is a fairly complex end-node evaluation process that considers...

layers of neurons. Alpha–beta pruning Artificial neural network Null-move heuristic Pruning (artificial neural network) Pearl, Judea (1984). Heuristics:...

book with 10,000 moves, had a permanent brain during opponents' moves,, used a novel algorithm for move pruning, null-move heuristic, and had sophisticated...

terminal node then return color × the heuristic value of node childNodes := generateMoves(node) childNodes := orderMoves(childNodes) value := −∞ foreach child...

generally require zugzwang to win. Corresponding squares Forced move Key square Null-move heuristic Opposition — a special type of zugzwang Seki – a situation...

it can check whether that is true by searching the remaining nodes with a null window (also known as a scout window; when alpha and beta are equal), which...

engine – Minimax – Null-move heuristic – Portable Game Notation – Transposition table – Endgame tablebase – Chess theory – First-move advantage in chess...

before others. Another common, and very cheap, heuristic is the killer heuristic, where the last move that caused a beta-cutoff at the same tree level...

extension, PV extension, Futility Pruning and Razoring, History Heuristic, Killer-move heuristic. Evaluation: Piece-square tables, Pawn structure evaluation...

iterative deepening to traverse the game tree. It also uses the null-move heuristic. The original version used a simplistic evaluation function with...

multiple processors. It also includes negascout search, the killer move heuristic, static exchange evaluation, quiescence search, alpha-beta pruning,...

candidate moves to conduct a search to N + 1 plies. See iterative deepening depth-first search. killer heuristic Assumption that a move (the killer move) that...

unordered list, one simple heuristic for decreasing average search time is the move-to-front heuristic, which simply moves an element to the beginning...

Discovery of the relativity principle", Einstein's Revolution: A Study in Heuristic, Chicago, Illinois: Open Court Publishing Company, ISBN 0-8126-9067-2...

limits. When an artificial limit is hit, then you must make a heuristic judgment about which move to select. Normally, the tree would supply you with extensive...

fundamental properties: efficiency, symmetry, additivity, and the dummy player (or null player) property, which are widely accepted as defining a fair distribution...

special relativity to the analysis of accelerated particles. Since photons move on null lines, d τ = 0 {\displaystyle d\tau =0} for a photon, and a 4-velocity...

The problem is computationally difficult (NP-hard); however, efficient heuristic algorithms converge quickly to a local optimum. These are usually similar...

null vectors, called a null basis. Vector fields are called timelike, spacelike, or null if the associated vectors are timelike, spacelike, or null at...

valid inferences (referred to as automated reasoning). In contrast, a heuristic is an approach to solving problems without well-defined correct or optimal...

the Casimir effect stating "the concept of zero-point fluctuations is a heuristic and calculational aid in the description of the Casimir effect, but not...

algorithm Moore machine Morris–Pratt move (finite-state machine transition) move-to-front heuristic move-to-root heuristic multi-commodity flow multigraph...

instead converge on a local maximum. This problem does not occur if the heuristic is convex. However, as many functions are not convex hill climbing may...

found, remaining ← DLS(root, depth) if found ≠ null then return found else if not remaining then return null function DLS(node, depth) is if depth = 0 then...

K_{p}} setting that was causing oscillation.[citation needed] Another heuristic tuning method is known as the Ziegler–Nichols method, introduced by John...

selecting which of those potential holes to put the file; each of them is a heuristic approximate solution to the bin packing problem. The "best fit" algorithm...

induction – Form of mathematical proof MapReduce – Parallel programming model Heuristic (computer science) – Type of algorithm, produces approximately correct...

humans to choose their moves: they use heuristic methods to build, search and evaluate trees representing sequences of moves from the current position...