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Our computer chess program uses lookahead to avoid difficult endgames.

It's a fascinating distinction, and one that also has the neat effect of moving the debate on from the contentious territory of the SF/litfic turfwar into that of value-neutral literary theory.

We are going to run them machines an' don't you forgit it, mumbled Hellig, and lurched forward.