claim: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe failed to publish Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.
evidence: Alpha -- beta pruning is a search algorithm that seeks to decrease the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree .. search algorithm. search algorithm. minimax algorithm. Minimax#Minimax algorithm with alternate moves. search tree. game tree. It is an adversarial search algorithm used commonly for machine playing of two-player games -LRB- Tic-tac-toe , Chess , Go , etc. -RRB- .. search algorithm. search algorithm. adversarial search algorithm. adversarial search algorithm. Tic-tac-toe. Tic-tac-toe. Chess. Chess. Go ( board game ). It stops completely evaluating a move when at least one possibility has been found that proves the move to be worse than a previously examined move .. Such moves need not be evaluated further .. When applied to a standard minimax tree , it returns the same move as minimax would , but prunes away branches that can not possibly influence the final decision .