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You literally can't, though. That's my point. The number of positions is just to high to store. Not even every computer in the world put together can store every legal chess position.
So in both cases the computer has to make an educated guess. Now the top engines use neural networks to make better guesses instead of brute forcing positions
There's a difference in making an educated guess in a system with known rules or unknown rules.
Only to you. To a computer it's the same thing, just some weights being adjusted by data