Today, at the 18th World Computer Shogi Championship, top two programs won against top amateur palyers in exihibition. http://www.computer-shogi.org/index_e.html
The result of the tournament is here. http://www.computer-shogi.org/wcsc18/index_e.html You can replay the exhibition games here (in Japanese). http://homepage.mac.com/junichi_takada/wcsc18/exhibition.html The amateur players, Yukio Kato and Toru Shimizugami are current title holders and stroger than weaker professionals. CSA stands for Computer Shogi Association (in Japan). Shogi is a Chess like board game and is very popular in Japan but not in the world :(. The search space is about 10^220 in Shogi where it's 10^300 in 19x19 Go and 10^120 in Chess. BTW, YSS, the champ of last year and the fourth today, is developed by Hiroshi Yamashita, well known author of Aya. -Hideki -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kato) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
