This is how I played chess when I was a kid. Scan for all the possible next moves, all replies, do some pruning, repeat etc. I think my max depth was probably a

This is how I played chess when I was a kid. Scan for all the possible next moves, all replies, do some pruning, repeat etc. I think my max depth was probably around 12 moves into the future or so. But now, thinking about it as an adult and it terms of AI, why are we using our conscious mind to calculate when we have a whole brain in place to do the work for us? You instead want to train your brain to recognize positions, opportunities and let it empirically calculate for you in the background. Looking at how chess masters play they seem to employ both these.