Here is a report by Reijer Grimbergen, associate professor at Yamagata University in Japan and author of a Shogi program Spear which was 12nd at the tournament.
His report is very interesting, dramatic and should make you were at the tournament even if you know nothing about Shogi. The 18th CSA World Computer Shogi Championships http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SHOGI/CSA2008/18csa.html -Hideki Hideki Kato: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >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/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kato) _______________________________________________ computer-go mailing list computer-go@computer-go.org http://www.computer-go.org/mailman/listinfo/computer-go/
