From: Takenobu Takizawa MSE WASEDA AC JP> Date: 23 mar 1999 Subject: Result of the 9th Computer Shogi Championship The 9th Computer Shogi Championship: tounament results I would like to announce the result of the results of the 9th Comuter Shogi Championsip. First prize: Kanazawa Shogi, Second prize: YSS, Third prize: Shotest. After the sixth round in the final, we were very excited. If Kanazawa beat IS then Kanazawa would be the first, but if Kanazawa was beaten, then if YSS won the final game then YSS would be the first and if YSS lost the final game then IS would be the first. YSS had been beaten before the match between Kanazawa and IS. It was then more excited. IS would be the first if won the final game but it would be the fifth if lost the final game. Then IS lost the game against Kanazawa. Jeff Rollason's SHOTEST from England was the third. Here we show the results: first, the lower division contest, second, the upper division contest, and third, the final. (1) LOWER DIVISION CONTEST morning on 3/18/99 1. SPEAR 12 7 11 6 16 w-l-d sorkov order o o x o x 3-2 14 7 SB=5 2 Nazoteki 13 8 14 16 6 Dengi o o x x o 3-2 15.5 5* 3 Yokoyama 14 9 10 8 7 x o o x o 3-2 12 9 4 AIchan 15 10 16 17 20 o o x x x 2-3 17 11 5 Kikuchi 16 11 15 19 21 x x o o x 2-3 15 12 6 Tsubaki- 17 12 18 10 2 hara x o x o x 2-3 12 14 7 Amano Jr. 18 1 17 13 3 o x x o x 2-3 14.5 13 8 M-R 19 2 20 3 14 o x o o o 4-1 13 4* 9 INS99 20 3 19 21 12 x x x x o 1-4 10 21 10 Taiteki 21 4 3 6 13 o x x x o 2-3 11.5 15 11 Deep 22 5 1 20 17 Purple o o o o x 4-1 14.5 3* 12 U10 1 6 21 22 9 x x x x x 0-5 10.5 22 13 Ujiie 2 18 22 7 10 x o - x x 1-3-1 10.5 19 14 Universal 3 19 2 1 8 Shogi+Shocky o o o x x 3-2 14 6 SB=7 15 Sunada 4 20 5 18 22 x x x o o 2-3 10.5 16 16 Sakura 5 21 4 2 1 o o o o o 5-0 13 1* 17 Silver 6 22 7 4 11 o o o o o 5-0 11.5 2* 18 Yamada 7 13 6 15 19 x x o x o 2-3 8.5 17 19 Oushuu 8 14 9 5 18 x x o x x 1-4 12 20 20 Tacos 9 15 8 11 4 o o x x o 3-2 13 8 21 Suzuki 10 16 12 9 5 x x o o o 3-2 10 10 22 GS 11 17 13 12 15 x x - o x 1-3-1 12.5 18 Sakura, Silver, Deep Purple, M-R, and Nazoteki Dengi went to the upper devision. (2) UPPER DIVISION CONTEST afternoon on 3/18/99 1 Kakinoki 11 6 8 13 5 2 17 w-l-d sorkov order o o o o o x o 6-1 29 2* 2 YSS 12 7 13 14 3 1 5 o o o o o o o 7-0 27.5 1* 3 Morita 13 8 12 9 1 5 19 x o o o x x o 4-3 24.5 9 4 Sougin 14 9 15 11 13 17 16 x o o o o x o 5-2 23.5 4* 5 Eisei 15 10 14 20 1 3 2 Meijin o o o o x o x 5-2 28.5 3* 6 Sekita 16 1 17 12 7 14 13 o x x o o x x 3-4 27.5 11 7 Amano Sr. 17 2 16 18 6 11 15 x x x o x x o 2-5 25 17 8 S1.4 18 3 20 17 14 16 10 o x o x - x x 2-4-1 24.5 15 9 Takada 19 4 1 3 17 10 18 o x x x x x x 1-6 27 18 10 Maruyama 20 5 18 19 16 9 8 x x o x x o o 3-4 19.5 14 SB=4.5 11 Tancho 1 16 19 4 20 7 14 x o o x o o x 4-3 27.5 8 12 Hyper 2 17 3 6 15 19 20 x o x x o x x 2-5 26 16 13 Kawabata 3 18 2 1 4 20 6 o o x x x o o 4-3 29 7 14 KFEnd 4 19 5 2 8 6 11 o o x x - o o 4-2-1 29.5 6 15 Kenzo 5 20 4 16 12 18 7 x x x x x o x 1-6 22 19 16 Sakura 6 11 7 15 10 8 4 x x o o o o x 4-3 20.5 10 17 Silver 7 12 6 8 9 4 1 o x o o o o x 5-2 21.5 5* 18 Deep 8 13 10 7 19 15 9 Purple x x x x x x o 1-6 16.5 20 19 M-R 9 14 11 10 18 12 3 x x x o o o x 3-4 19.5 13 SB=6 20 Nazoteki 10 15 8 5 11 13 12 Dengi o o x x x x o 3-4 21.5 12 YSS, Kakinoki, Eisei Meijin, Sougin, and Silver went to the final. (3) THE FINAL on 3/19/99 1 IS 5 6 7 8 3 4 2 w-l SB order o x o o o x x 4-3 10 5 2 Kanazawa 8 7 6 4 5 3 1 o o o x o o o 6-1 18 1 3 SHOTEST 7 5 8 6 1 2 4 o o x o x x o 4-3 11* 3 4 YSS 6 8 5 2 7 1 4 x o x o o o x 4-3 13 2 5 Kakinoki 1 3 4 7 2 8 6 x x o o x o x 3-4 7 7 6 Eisei 4 1 2 3 8 7 5 Meijin o o x x x o o 4-3 11* 4 7 Sougin 3 2 1 5 4 6 8 x x x x x x x 0-7 0 8 8 Silver 2 4 3 1 6 5 7 x x o x o x o 3-4 8 6 MD=7 (both SHOTEST and Eisei Meijin). Head-to-head SHOTEST beat Eisei Meijin. First Prize: Kanazawa Shogi Second Prize: YSS (AI Shogi) Third Prize: SHOTEST (from England) Reijer Grimbergen will post the detailed report on this championship in the next week. Thank him in advance. Takenobu Takizawa