What does it matter if Kasparov had sophisticated heuristics that let him bypass considering a few hundred million positions? Deep Blue won, even with its dumb

What does it matter if Kasparov had sophisticated heuristics that let him bypass considering a few hundred million positions? Deep Blue won, even with its dumb brute force approach. A self driving car may have to use billions more calculations per second in order to drive a car than I do. And yet, they have driven hundreds of thousands of miles without accident, which is more than I can claim for myself. The crazy thing about human heuristics is that they can be learned. Deep Blue was created more than 15 years ago, but in the time since, Houdini can do even better than Deep Blue, and it can do it on a dual core laptop. How? By learning heuristics from Grand Masters.