From: Hiroki Kawada <kawada <at> MERL <dot> HITACHI <dot> CO <dot> JP>
Date: 14 feb 1996
Subject: Re: Is human wiser than computer in games?

At  8:31 AM 96.2.8 +0100, Wijnand Engelkes wrote:
>In checkers, the program Chinook has proved to be of equal strenghth as the
>world champion. Chinook has its own web page.

At  4:39 PM 96.2.8 +0900, Hitoshi Matsubara wrote:
>Human is much stronger than computer in bridge.
>And human is stronger than computer in Chinese chess.

Thanks for interesting knowledge for me.  I didn't know the world
championship in checkers.  It was interesting a super computer won against
Kasparov in the last game.
By the way, one thing I forgot to ask last time.  I heard that Othello, a
game in which pieces having black and white faces are turned down on 8x8
board, was completely solved.  Is it sure?

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