This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Second International Conference on Computers and Games, CG 2001, held in Hamamatsu, Japan in October 2000 The 23 revised full papers presented together with two invited contributions and five reviews were carefully refereed and selected during two rounds of reviewing and одмиь improvement The papers are organized in topical sections on search and strategies, learning and pattern acquisition, theory and complexity issues, and further experiments on game; the reviews presented are on computer language games, computer Go, intelligent agents for computer games, RoboCup, and computer Shogi.  TetsujiISBN 3540430806.