> All it does is mechanically keep on steering the game towards positions that are evaluted as best by the function. I wouldn't say so entirely--It's possible

> All it does is mechanically keep on steering the game towards positions that are evaluted as best by the function. I wouldn't say so entirely--It's possible to predict multiple moves ahead (before the number of possibilities explodes), and a heuristic is a sort of plan too. What you're describing sounds like a greedy algorithim more than anything else.