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Newborn mentions the abandonment of forward pruning as an important advance made by Slate and Atkin in 1969, and David Slate mentioned it in his talk at the AAAI awards ceremony in 1997 July. However, I was informed that Deep Blue does some forward pruning deep in the tree.
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John McCarthy
Mon Aug 25 18:01:28 PDT 1997