Didn’t mean to condescend, I was mostly pointing out that complexity is in the iteration of simple rules with a fairly wide branching. I will still argue that all the heuristics and evaluation mechanisms used by standard engines are effectively search predictions, useful only because the full search is infeasible, and because the full search results have not been memoized (in the not-so-giant-by-today’s-standards lookup table of position->value).
Didn’t mean to condescend, I was mostly pointing out that complexity is in the iteration of simple rules with a fairly wide branching. I will still argue that all the heuristics and evaluation mechanisms used by standard engines are effectively search predictions, useful only because the full search is infeasible, and because the full search results have not been memoized (in the not-so-giant-by-today’s-standards lookup table of position->value).
Put that way I completely agree.