From: Hiroki Kawada <kawada <at> MERL <dot> HITACHI <dot> CO <dot> JP>
Date: 12 mar 1996
Subject: Re: Is human wiser than computer in games?

At  9:12 PM 96.3.10 -0500, Kevin Maroney wrote:
>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.

Thanks for the info.
Wow!  A friend of mine told Othello was solved.  It was partially correct.
Now I found why I have never won Othello game in a video game machine, even
at the lowest level...  I wish the world champion of Othello, a Japanese I
think, would make a match with computers.  The game, before the 32nd move,
is absolutely the competition between inspiration by human and calculation
by computer.

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