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Subject: Re: WMCCC 2000

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 22:43:35 04/19/00

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On April 19, 2000 at 16:51:34, Jeremiah Penery wrote:

>According to that page, computers will be competing in several other games,
>including Backgammon, Othello, and Awari.  To my knowledge these three games
>(and possibly some of the other ones) have been completely solved by computers.
>So what's the point of having a competition for them?
>
>Jeremiah

None of them have been solved.

If I remember correctly, there is a fellow in Europe who is attempting to solve
Awari while working towards their Ph.D.  So I guess that this year's awari
competition may be the last. :-)  There are also people here at the U of A
working on Awari too.

Dave



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