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by ItsMonkk 1844 days ago
There was a recent Chess topic[0] that should help explain better.

Basically all the engines in Chess start with the present position, and try to look into the future move by move. To be able to find the winning position like that is almost impossible for the position they were looking at. And yet, if you give the idea to an average Chess player, they will work out how to get a Checkmate. They will do so by finding Mate, then working back on how to get the board to that state. They will find the winning position when they reach the current state.

He's simply taken this idea and generalized it further to more than Chess.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27188854