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My chess playing software considers options and makes a decision. Does it have free will?
If an abstract theory (such as the whole universe being governed by billiard ball causation) contradicts a direct observation, you don't say the observation is wrong, you say the theory is.
I defy the data.
Your chess playing software must make the decision that is most likely to win the game, wheras humans don't have anything to stop us making the bad decision.
Your chess playing software must make the decision which is most likely to win the game according to some algorithm (and assuming no computer glitches). Humans have plentiful reasons to make mistakes of kinds that computers don't, but that doesn't mean computers making the best possible moves.