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@Sterling: To make a MENACE to play chess, you'd need to draw every possible position in chess. As I wrote in this blog post, if you had a matchbox for each possible chess position, your pile of matchboxes would be this big:



This number of positions is too big for this method of learning to work for chess, so you'd need a more advanced method...
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