From: Patrick Lacz <placz <at> HOTMAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 1 sep 1998
Subject: Re: Feng-hsiung Hsu

>Feng-hsiung Hsu, the man whose program defeated the world chess
>champion is looking for new worlds to conquer.  In this article, he
>indicated that shogi might be next....

What do people think about this?  My personal opinion is that while the
possible media attention would be nice in countries like the US, if a
similar loss occurs for shogi professionals, much of the artistic and
traditional value of shogi would be lost.  (Can you imagine professional
shogi players using computers during their matches like some chess
tournaments are organized now?)  That is, of course, if the computer
would win ;)  (Unfortunately, I also think the brute force method would
work - even if the results are rather uninspiring.)

As i said at the top, are there any other opinions on this?

Patrick Lacz


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