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I still maintain that when computers do not play a game well it is not the fault of them or their logic, but rather that of the programing involved. It might be very difficult for a programmer to develop a sharp program... as in the case of the non-chess variant, Go; and in the case of the very interesting Arimaa. But, once the right approach is found and optimized, watch out.

P.S. - Arimaa has a nice web-site devoted to it (even has an animated tutorial with music); and has World Championships for humans, and another World Championship for computers (thus encouraging programmers to create a winner). I can see where this game would be difficult to program, after all, do the human programmers even know what is the best strategy/tactic in a given position?

Anyway, time is on the side of the computers.