Learning chess recently, I think it’s a terrible example for AI. I don’t understand why it was ever targeted or trumpeted. To become good at chess you have to m

Learning chess recently, I think it’s a terrible example for AI. I don’t understand why it was ever targeted or trumpeted. To become good at chess you have to memorise the responses to tons of situations, simple pattern matching. It seems to me that chess is more about memory than about reasoning, in the same surprising way that scrabble is more about maths than words.