Rules to these ancient games seemed lost forever. Then AI made its move (wired.me)

> "“For example, whether the game is biased toward one player, whether it’s too short or too long, too simple or too complex. These indicators can tell us which rulesets were more likely to have been the games that people enjoyed playing."

they tell the computer the pieces and the board layout, then run algorithms that auto balance the game, and they assume the balanced game is the one they played historically