From: Hiroki Kawada <kawada <at> MERL <dot> HITACHI <dot> CO <dot> JP>
Date: 25 dec 1995
Subject: No Subject

Joris Ballet wrote to Reijer's mail:
>>P.S.: I almost literally bumped into Hiroki Kawada last Sunday, when he
>>stepped out of a shop here in Tsukuba. He explained to me why
>>there is so much interest in the functioning of Habu's brain. It seems that
>>he is the only professional who mainly uses the right part of his brain
>>when playing a game. All other professionals mainly use the left side of
>>the brain (if I remember correctly, it could also be vice versa). It would
>>support my rather unscientific assumption that the difference between Habu
>>and the others is that Habu is psychic :-). I have not been able to find any
>>other feature in his Shogi that makes him such special player.
>>In any case, food for thought for neuroscientists and psychologists...
>>
>
>correct me if i'm wrong, but i think i remember something from my neuro
>science classes (lucky i remember anything at all from my classes :-)
>
>Most people use left and right part of the brain for specific purposes,
>but for some people this is reversed, usually left handed people.
>
>Is Habu left handed ?

No, he is right handed.
I think it can be easily checked wether he uses his brain reversed or not.
One can measure his brain wave while he calculates numbers and shogi.  I
think the scientist who investigated Habu's brain may have checked it.

Hiroki
Hiroki Kawada                     * "After the defeat
Mechanical Engineering Res. Lab., *   it is a valuable time."
Sec. 15, Hitachi, Ltd.,           * K. Yonenaga,
Kandatsu 502, Tsuchiura,          *  Shogi (Japanese chess) player
Ibaraki  300 Japan