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Originally Posted by nittyit
Yes. "Quiescence search attempts to emulate intuition by instructing a computer to search "interesting" positions to a greater depth than "quiet" ones (hence its name) to make sure there are no hidden traps and, usually equivalently, to get a better estimate of its value."
There are also other chess programs that can base their play on your play history. If you play the program it learns your tendencies or style and can factor that knowledge into a move. An example would be Deep Blue where it effectively learned Kasparov's play from past matches.
Nothing in here says anything about being able to choose otherwise given the exact same variables. This is just stating how sophisticated the programmed choice is. The computer is making a choice based on an algorithm, albeit a very sophisticated algorithm, but it is not different than something like this,
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Only much more complicated. My websites are full of these, do my websites have free will?