[floe]

> isn't given the game rules, so it doesn't know the difference between legal and illegal moves

But it does have some way to determine a list of legal moves from any given state, and a way to determine whether a state is winning. To me, that's being 'given the game rules'.

> before any training it would evaluate a capture no differently than any other move.

That's a good way to say it!

[shmageggy]

> But it does have some way to determine a list of legal moves from any given state

No it doesn't. That's the Zero part.