Peter, chess and computing wasn't always a good mix. I remember Arthur Koestler explaining at great length why a computer would never match the human brain at chess. It would need to analyse every possible consequence before making its first move, and that would take forever.Obviously he failed to anticipate the rate at which computers would speed up in terms of theoretical movements per second. More important, he failed to see that computers could be programmed to mimic what we humans mastered long-since: fuzzy logic.

Thanks for the links. I thought computers had exhausted the game by now. They've certainly knocked the postal game on the head.