From: R J Hare <rjhare <at> TATTOO <dot> ED <dot> AC <dot> UK>
Date: 12 may 1997
Subject: Real chess computing

I see that the IBM Deep Blue machine has beaten the world chess champion 3 1/2
- 2 1/2 in a 6 game  series. David Levy (amongst others) was talking about this
on the radio this morning (in the U.K.). I don't know that this is necessarily
the major breakthrough in Artificial Intelligence which it is being touted as?

Is there any chance that this machine can or will be programmed to play shogi?
I would imagine that the problem of playing shogi (larger board, promotion,
drops) might give Deep Blue a slight headache? After that, we can try it with
Go?

Should the NSR think about organising a challenge to Deep Blue or am I just
being silly?

Roger Hare