"the difference with chess is there's no simple known heuristic to evaluate a board position" While it is indeed hand-coded in most chess engines (I'm sure the

"the difference with chess is there's no simple known heuristic to evaluate a board position" While it is indeed hand-coded in most chess engines (I'm sure there are some experimental ones, but that's not the path that leads to beating human grandmasters), these heurystics are everything but "simple".