From: Kevin Maroney <kjm <at> PANIX <dot> COM>
Date: 10 mar 1996
Subject: Re: Is human wiser than computer in games?

Hiroki Kawada asked:
> 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?

Othello has not yet been solved on an 8x8 board. I beleive that 6x6
Othello has been solved, and that there are programs that can take an 8x8
board and play it to perfection after the 32nd piece has been
placed--that is, that can never lose an endgame if the endgame is winnable.

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Kevin J. Maroney|kjm <at> panix <dot> com|Proud to be a Maroney|Proud to be a Yonker
                        Oh no, it's the apocalypse.