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Re:Chess: Who will win in this riveting game of Math.random(... by halfcat on Sunday January 25, 2015 @09:31PM (#8945273)
Chess engines make use of similar Markov-chain-like techniques, such as killer [1] and history [2] heuristics. They also use win-loss-draw outcomes from millions of grandmaster games in a similar way to build an opening database, to guide them through the opening, the phase which they are weakest at.

[1] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Killer+Heuristic

[2] https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/History+Heuristic

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