On: Grandmaster-level chess without search

[bobmcnamara]

Your engine would only mate once it had y options to mate.

[danielmarkbruce → bobmcnamara]

Any time it had an option to mate it would have a chance to mate. It's choose randomly amongst top n, not take the nth.

[dullcrisp → bobmcnamara]

Or y chances. They did say it’d pick randomly. Still not great though, if a bit less funny.