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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by nwallin on Saturday June 01, 2019 @03:37PM (#20071110)
Strictly speaking, this is an AI. AI does not imply AGI.

Typically, chess engines are built on minimax, with optimizations like alpha beta pruning.

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Re:Sunfish: A simple but strong chess engine written in Python by sweeneyrod on Saturday June 01, 2019 @04:03PM (#20071302)
AI definitely doesn't imply Artificial General Intelligence, but I'm pretty sure no-one's saying that. The common confusion is between AI and sexy Machine Learning.
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