[beambot]

Chess is featured in Peter Norvig's "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" dating back to the 1st edition (1995) and at least up until the 3rd edition (2009). Algorithms such as alpha-beta pruning were definitely considered AI at the time.

[intelkishan]

It's even mentioned in the recent 4th edition(2020).

[calderknight]

Yeah AI has multiple denotations, those things have never been considered "real" AI tho