The second day saw action featuring a computer with specially designed software to fit a larger 19-column board which also enabled it to better recognize its own intelligence and its limits. Matched against were Level 6 player Ying Ch'ang-ch'i, eight-year-old player Hsia Hsien-yu, and Level 6 university professor Shen Ch'un-shan. Yet better software was not enough.
但第二天電腦對人腦的比賽，卻出現了一部深具「自知之明」的電腦，它輸進了由美國的維爾考克斯設計的十九路圍棋電腦軟體，先碰六段的應昌期，再碰八歲五級的夏銜譽、六段的清大教授沈君山，分別被授九子、六子、十七子，結果連續三盤向人腦棄子投降。