From: mark schreiber <mschribr <at> ACCESSHUB <dot> NET>
Date: 15 apr 1999
Subject: Re: Report 9th CSA Computer Shogi Championships

A computer in 1995 that gets 5/6 in a human shogi tournament
and beats a 3-dan sounds impressive. Did a computer enter
in any of the following years? I wonder how a strong program
like Kanazawa Shogi would score in the Verkouille memorial?
Why do you not allow a computer in the European championship?
Good luck with RONIN in the Verkouille memorial tournament.
Mark Schreiber

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Schreiber <mschribr <at> ACCESSHUB <dot> NET>
To: SHOGI-L <at> techunix <dot> technion <dot> ac <dot> il <SHOGI-L <at> techunix <dot> technion <dot> ac <dot> il>
Date: Monday, April 12, 1999 4:24 AM
Subject: Re: Report 9th CSA Computer Shogi Championships


> Marc Schreiber wrote:
><Has anyone proposed that a human play the winner of
><he computer Shogi tournament? This will give a more current
><and direct evaluation of how well the best computers play Shogi
><against humans. We would not need to speculate based on
><computer versus computer games or computer versus a human
><played over a year ago. Are computers allowed to play shogi
><in human tournaments? Of course a computer would not win
><a human tournament, but it would evaluate how strong or weak
><the computer plays.
><Mark Schreiber
>
>As referee, I have never made objections to programs competing
>in 'human' events (not the European championship however).
>
>Later on, a strong Japanese program (Sekita) played in the 1995 Verkouille
>memorial and scored no less than 5/6 (beating o.a. Segers 3-dan
>and Pottier (2-dan at the time) and losing only to Van Oosten, 4-dan)
>
>In the mean time, I wrote a 'western' chess program myself (Bionic)
>and Albrecht Heeffer managed to persuade me to rewrite the code for
>Shogi (which I'm doing right now). I hope the first version of "RONIN"
>will be ready by the end of may (29-30, Verkouille memorial)
>
>kind regards,  Hans Secelle,  FESA Chairman