Me

I designed and coded some heuristics to speed up such searches. Does that make my work "an example of applied AI"? Or is it just a solution to a practical problem?

Perl

What intelligence?

Once AI becomes applied, I'll start believing in it. For the time being, the burden of proof is upon its proponents.

Abigail

You are correct, it values the resulting position it was merely a misstatement and hardly worthy of devoting your response to pointing out that one word.

What do you do when you (meaning whoever is reading, or most people not specifically Abigail-II) play a game of chess? You have a knowledge of a set of openings, pick one and start. As each move results in a position you evaluate the current position, you examine the list of possible moves and evaluate each resulting position through some set of logical rules. How is this different than what a computer based chess player does? If its reliance on heuristics makes it "shallow and not very meaningful", then what does that say about the human playing chess?

As I indicated, the difference is that a computer examines all possible moves, while (good) human players only examine a few moves. They instinctly know what good moves are, and don't waste time even considering bad moves. How humans make this (pre)selection of moves to examine isn't known, but it's good enough to beat computers who can examine millions of positions per second.

Abigail