I don't want to be too dismissive of the work going into this, but Chess isn't that huge of a search space. Games can quickly end in many scenarios from certain

I don't want to be too dismissive of the work going into this, but Chess isn't that huge of a search space. Games can quickly end in many scenarios from certain points. Does having an evaluation system that takes into account king safety only as a consequence of having taken the entire game state into account, mean that it understands king safety? Can you extract these tactics from the AI? Can it explain the moves? I would be interested in seeing work here that can provide some comprehensibility to the correlations, as that's how we can get to actual novel intuition. "The computer is good with this neural network due to pattern matching" is less actionable than "the computer is good and found this kind of pattern, and we think it relates to this". EDIT: I think that if anything Chess is an interesting example of humans emulating computers. People sitting around thinking about variations, trying to snuff out what is good/bad. Granted, the fact that you're playing against other humans is pretty important at a higher level, but it's centuries of people sitting down and running through the search space, using our approximations for what are good and bad.