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A Bound is a limit imposed on a node value, beyond which changes of the value have no effect on the shape of the search tree.

• Lower Bound
• Upper Bound

See also

• Alpha
• Alpha-Beta
• Beta
• Fail-Hard
• Fail-Soft
• Integrated Bounds and Values
• Score

Exact Score

• Transposition Table

Forum Posts

• bounds in alpha-beta by Walter Ravenek, rgcc, June 05, 1996 » Fail-Soft, Arthur, Crafty
• Alpha beta fail soft, pruning & hash bounds? by Steve Maughan, CCC, December 14, 2000 » Fail-Soft, Pruning
• Using just Upperbounds and Lowerbounds by Alvaro Jose Povoa Cardoso, CCC, February 01, 2001 » Upper Bound, Lower Bound
• bound type in PVS ? by Mahmoud Uthman, CCC, January 23, 2017 » Principal Variation Search

External Links

• Bound from Wikipedia
• Upper and lower bounds from Wikipedia
• Branch-and-bound from Wikipedia
• Kraan - Overseas Bound (1975), YouTube Video

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