If the goal of the project is generalization, you likely want to shy away from opinionated heuristics like the former you mention.
In the development for the Magic the Gathering AI (Duels), one of the restrictions is "don't cast harmful spells on your targets" even though for some edge cases this is actually the optimal thing to do. They traded a smaller search space at the expense of optimality.
In the development for the Magic the Gathering AI (Duels), one of the restrictions is "don't cast harmful spells on your targets" even though for some edge cases this is actually the optimal thing to do. They traded a smaller search space at the expense of optimality.