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What I want to know is if it is possible to do the opposite: extract novel, useful and human-understandable heuristics from a chess engine?

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Yes, it has been done with go and Deep Mind. The program found novel patterns of playing that were not known. I don't see why this wouldn't happen with chess.

I was thinking more along the lines of automated discovery of such heuristics.

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