Does this mean that if the 50 computers which did this great evil were all linked in a vast chamber beneath Frankenstein's castle with Tinsley sitting on the other side of the checkers board....Tinsley wouldn't stand a chance?

But I guess it'll be at least a few months before they market a program which has the capacity of those 50 computers all wrapped up together on the spot. Maybe a few years.

But you know, even IF this greatest of games is solved by a computer, it is still not solved by the only meaningful measure we as human beings have, i.e., not until a human brain knows what those 50 chained monsters know.

And after all, look what we're dealing with, people. It is an alien brain, an artificial, non-human, monstrous creation with no respect for the humanity & sheer creative gut-genius of Tinsley or any other hungry, wily, desperate, or empassioned player. It is like Hal in 2001 A Space Odyssey, with a calm cool collected insidious insinuating insufferable voice telling us humans that we don't cut the mustard, that we aren't MACHINE enough to do the job right, that we have been weighed & found wanting by WIRES and circuits and metal and plastic wrapped together in a hideous Man-made shell...and it must be SHUT DOWN!!!!!

Now for morning coffee & a puff.