From: Pieter Stouten EMBL BITNET> Date: 14 jun 1990 Subject: Re: Shogi playing programs On Fri, 8 Jun 90 11:58:50 -0500 JRP (PYTH WIDENER bitnet) asks: >I'm curious as to the coding efforts (or efforts at acquiring code) out there. >Has anyone found a program that plaus shogi? In English? ;-) > >I'm willing to write some stuff, but my schedule is limited... Chris Sterritt (chris adms-rad unisys com), one of the list owners wants to do the same. Apart from that, I can only repost the following (sorry, subscribers who already read this): >"... More important, however, is that Mr. Iida's work for his Masters >or PhD (not clear) at university involved writing Shogi playing programs >and he has just released a commercial Shogi program. It is supposed to >be the strongest ever to have entered the market and he and a friend >of his have full copyright. It runs only on Japanese PC's and PC's with >Japanese OS's. As far as I understood him he favours the idea of spreading >the program outside Japan and is willing to provide the source (in C). >Of course there will be lots of ifs and conditions before the source >code is shipped. ... " > >Mr. Hiroyuki Iida is 5-dan professional and everybody interested in >writing Shogi programs or obtaining Shogi programs is welcome to contact >him at: Nihon Shogi Renmei (Japanese Shogi Association) > attn. Mr. Hiroyuki Iida > 2-39-9 Sendagaya > Shibuya-ku > Tokyo, Japan. > >So: there are commercial programs; I have not seen any freeware or >shareware programs. The best programs are roughly 7 kyu, which is >midway between a pure beginner and a (Chess-like) ELO rating of 1900. >Shogi is harder to program than Chess and this certainly has to do with >drops. Mr. Iida told me that apart from Chess-like techniques also a >pattern approach similar to Go is used, but he did not go into details. >I do not know about any literature on the subject. If you contact Mr. >Iida, you can ask him ... Pieter Stouten bitnet: stouten@embl