Boards & Equipment

What is a pruning in chess?

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  • Coordinates

Pruning is a board or equipment term: chess engines usually include an algorithm to eliminate certain moves from consideration, assuming that they are blunders and therefore irrelevant to the final move selection. Forward pruning runs the risk of overlooking the best move; this risk may be slight to moderate depending on how aggressively the pruning algorithm is set. You use this term to describe the board accurately, which matters for notation, coordinates, and analysis.

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