From: Pauli Misikangas <pmturune <at> CS <dot> HELSINKI <dot> FI>
Date: 26 feb 1998
Subject: Shocky II

Hi,

Some of you might still remember Shocky 1.82, that little shogi program I
introduced couple of months ago. Since then, I have totally redesigned and
rewritten Shocky and now I can proudly introduce Shocky II. At the moment
it is about 5 times faster than the previous version and has already been
able to win Shocky 1.82. And it is going to be much, much stronger.

Shocky II will support also other shogi variants than the normal
9x9 shogi. So far I have implemented only 9x9 shogi and micro-shogi.
You download a simple but playable demo application from the Shocky II
page:

        http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~pmturune/Shocky2.html

Shocky II is not really a complete program - it is just a C++ class
library providing the game engine and methods for board handling. You can
use this library in your own applications through the Shocky API
(application programming interface). The library source code is portable
so the library can be used to build applications for Windows, Macintosh,
UNIX, etc. If you are interested in using the Shocky library, check out
the Shocky API on-line documentation at

        http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~pmturune/Shocky_API.html

And don't forget to visit the Shocky main page at

        http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~pmturune/Shocky_e.html

Cheers,

Pauli Misikangas

Pauli.Misikangas <at> cs <dot> helsinki <dot> fi
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/~pmturune