From: SChazworth AOL COM Date: 15 may 1997 Subject: Re: Shogi computing A major advance in chess computing came when Grandmasters started to help with the project, adding less concrete, more subjective strategies into the tactical machine. How many of shogi top 100 work in this capacity? Would the shogi community gasp in horror if one of the top players did this? Clearly, shogi needs more of a "human" touch then chess does, as shogi is more dependant on difficult to measure items such as attack, initiative, piece positioning, etc.