Morris Library is the cornerstone that allows Southern Illinois University Carbondale to fulfill its core mission of teaching and research—it is a major educational force in the region, state, and nation. The breadth and depth of the Library's collection assists the University in attracting the brightest students and extraordinary faculty. The Library's facilities, services, and holdings are ut...

In recent years, a number of games have been solved using computers. These include Qubic [Patashnik 80], Connect-4 [Allen 89], [Allis 88] and Go-Moku [Allis 93]. All these games were solved using knowledge-based methods. These methods are successful because all these games have a low “decision complexity” [Allis 90], i.e., the right move is often easy to find. Not all games profit to the same e...