playing chess well was seen as a great marker of AI Was it? Alpha-beta pruning is from 1957 they had a decent idea chess of what human-beating computer chess w

playing chess well was seen as a great marker of AI Was it? Alpha-beta pruning is from 1957 they had a decent idea chess of what human-beating computer chess would be like and that it probably wasn't some pathway to Turing-test-beating AI.