From crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!Csli!matsubar Wed Aug 4 12:13:33 EDT 1993 Article: 18085 of comp.ai Xref: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu comp.ai:18085 Newsgroups: comp.ai Path: crabapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!magnesium.club.cc.cmu.edu!news.mic.ucla.edu!library.ucla.edu!agate!headwall.Stanford.EDU!Csli!matsubar From: matsubar@csli.stanford.edu (Hitoshi Matsubara) Subject: Computer Shogi Championship in Japan Message-ID: <1993Jul28.172223.1438@Csli.Stanford.EDU> Sender: matsubar@Csli.Stanford.EDU (Hitoshi Matsubara) Organization: CSLI, Stanford University Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1993 17:22:23 GMT Lines: 47 The following is the announcement of the Fourth (1993) Computer Shogi Championship Tournament. Shogi is Japanese chess. A noticeable difference between Shogi and western chess is that in Shogi a player can reuse pieces which he captured from his opponent. A branching factor in the end game of Shogi is usually over 100, sometimes over 300. The search space of Shogi is over 200th power of 10 (that of chess is about 120th power of 10). So brute-force approach cannot be applied. If you are interested, please contact Prof.Takizawa or me. Hitoshi Matsubara CSLI, Stanford University matsubar@csli.stanford.edu ---------------------------------------------------------------- This is to announce the 1993 Computer Shogi Championship. The Fourth (1993) Computer Shogi Championship sponsored by the CSA (Computer Shogi Association) in cooperation with the Nihon Shogi Remmei will be held on Sunday, December 5, 1993, at the Nihon Shogi Remmei, Sendagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Anyone may take part in the tournament. If you would like to enter your program in the tournament, please come to the Nihon Shogi Remmei before 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, December 5, 1993, with your program or send the program on a floppy disk to the Nihon Shogi Remmei. Rules : (1) The program must be made by the entrant. (2) Only one program per person may be accepted. (3) If you cannot come with your machine, please let us know. IBM compatibles, Apple Macintoshes and NEC 9800's will be available, but they are relatively slower machines. (4) Please pay an entry fee of 1,000 yen on the day of the tournament. (5) If you have any questions, please send e-mail to me, takizawa@cfi.waseda.ac.jp or contact Mr. Sumi of the Nihon Shogi Remmei, phone : +81-3-3408-6161 fax : +81-3-3404-7301 address : Nihon Shogi Remmei (Attn. Mr. Sumi) 2-39-9 Sendagaya, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 151, JAPAN. --------------------------------------------------------------------