Peter, chess and computing weren't always a good mix. I remember Arthur Koestler 20 years ago explaining in great detail why a computer would never match the human brain at chess. A computer, he argued,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 latched on to long-since: fuzzy logic.

Thanks for the links. I thought computers had exhausted the game by now. They've certainly killed off the postal game!