chess AI programming

[BramVandenbon]

It sounds believable that players often evaluate the correct move first.

Even in far more complicated board games such as Go (a more abstract game), often the best move is the first one that comes to mind. But strong players such as Lee Chang Ho have declared to read more than 100 moves ahead to verify it. As a medium experienced player (7 years) I usually don't read more than 15 moves ahead.

I only find it natural that on a smaller board with far more restrictions (such as the boardgame chess), this is probably even more the case than in Go (where the board is 19x19 area and almost every spot can be played).

For more info about go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)