From: Albrecht Heeffer VM TAU AC IL> Date: 26 apr 1995 Subject: Kiwame-2 program scoring high in Shogi Tournament Results of the 6th Verkouille Memorial Tournament (GENT, Belgium) ------------------------------------------------------------------- pl name gra mcm scr sos sbs 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 Takahara (4D) 1 6 25 21 3 + 7 - 16 + 5 + 2 + 6 + 2 Van Oosten (4D) 1 6 25 19 13 + 6 + 5 + 11 + 1 - 4 + 3 Segers (3D) 1 5 26 15 1 - 12 + 7 + 4 - 5 + 9 + 4 Kiwame-2 (??) 0 5 24 18 17 + 8 + 10 + 3 + 11 + 2 - 5 Greeuw (1K) 1 4 27 10 7 + 11 + 2 - 1 - 3 - 12 + 6 Grimbergen (4D) 1 4 25 10 12 + 2 - 11 - 13 + 7 + 1 - 7 Mirnik (1D) 1 4 24 11 5 - 1 + 3 - 16 + 6 - 11 + 8 Weimann (2K) 0 4 18 10 19 + 4 - 14 + 12 - 16 + 13 + 9 Blommers (2K) 0 4 17 9 15 - 20 + 17 + 14 + 12 + 3 - 10 Verhaeven (1K) 0 4 15 7 20 + 14 - 4 - 18 + 17 + 16 + 11 Pottier (2D) 1 3 25 6 16 + 5 - 6 + 2 - 4 - 7 - 12 Lerminet (1D) 1 3 23 6 6 - 3 - 18 + 8 + 9 - 5 - 13 Roquas (1D) 1 3 22 6 2 - 16 - 15 + 6 - 14 + 8 - 14 Heeffer (4K) 0 3 19 8 18 + 10 + 8 - 9 - 13 - 19 + 15 Beel (2K) 0 3 14 8 9 + 17 - 13 - 20 - 19 + 18 + 16 Casters (1D) 1 2 24 3 11 - 13 + 1 - 7 - 8 - 10 - 17 Kau (4K) 0 2 19 4 4 - 15 + 9 - 19 - 10 - 20 + 18 Depouillon (4K) 0 2 16 3 14 - 19 + 12 - 10 - 20 + 15 - 19 Vcaeneghem (8K) 0 2 15 3 8 - 18 - 20 + 17 + 15 - 14 - 20 Remue (6K) 0 1 17 3 10 - 9 - 19 - 15 + 18 - 17 - We were much suprised about the good results of Kiwame-2 computer program running on a 90 MHz Pentium. The program produced very human-like moves and was able to win from 2 Dan-players. This commercial program can be bought in Japan for about 9000 Yen. Unfortunately the manual is Japanese only. If anyone has more information about the search techniques used in this program I'm interested to know about it. Best regards, Albrecht Heeffer IMPAKT nv/sa --------------------------------------------------------- Address:Ham 64 Tel: + 32 (0)9 225 35 49 B-9000 Gent Belgium Fax: + 32 (0)9 233 00 78 ---------------------------------------------------------