From: Takenobu Takizawa MSE WASEDA AC JP> Date: 26 feb 2000 Subject: 10th Computer Shogi Championship Entry List The 10th Computer Shogi Championship Participant List It is my pleasure to announce that the 10th Computer Shogi Champiohship will be held in Japan in March 2000. There will be fifty six participants at the tournament. Takenobu Takizawa Chairman of the Executive Comittee Vice-Chairman of the Computer Shogi Association (CSA) -------------------------------------------------------------------- The 10th Computer Shogi Championship Competition Dates: March 8-10, 2000 Competition Venue: Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel 1-9 Maihama, Urayasu, Chiba 279-0031, Japan Phone: 047-355-5555 FAX: 047-355-5566 (+81-47-355-5555) (+81-47-355-5566) 1st day through 2nd day: Preliminary Contest The top 3 of the last tournament will be exempted from these days and proceed directly to the Final. The Preliminary Contest is divided into two groups. The upper division will consist of 16 programs (first through 19th seeds excluding the three direct finalists). The lower division contest will be held on the 1st day. There will be 7 Swiss-style games. The top 8 programs will join the upper division contest. If the number of programs is odd, the CSA will add an extra program by invitation. The invited program will not proceed to the second day. The upper division contest will be held on the 2nd day. There will be 9 Swiss-style games. The top 5 programs will proceed to the third day of competition. If the number of programs is, by chance, odd, the CSA will add an extra program by invitation but the invited program will not proceed to the third day. The CSA reserves the right to alter the number of proceeding programs if the number of entrants is less than 28 or more than 54. 3rd day: The Final Round robin of 8 programs with each program playing each other once. The Participants: ============================================================================= Program Owner Program Name PC name(CPU, clock) Programming Language ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Kanazawa Kanazawa Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumIII/800MHz), Planned C 2. Yamashita YSS 10 PC-AT(Athlon/850MHz), Planned C 3. Jeff Rollason Shotest 4.0 AT Compatible(PentiumIII/650MHz) C (UK) These three are the seeds to the final. 4. Yoshimura Eisei Meijin Undecided C 5. Tanase, Goto IS Shogi Undecided C Kishimoto 6. KCC Shogi Team KCC Shogi (PentiumIII/800MHz), Planned C++ (North Korea) 7. Kakinoki Kakinoki Shogi (PentiumIII/880MHz), Planned C 8. Koizumi Sougin Undecided C++ 9. Arioka KFEnd PowerBook2400c(PPC750/320MHz) C++ 10. Kawabata Kawabata Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumIII/800MHz), Java,C++, Planned Planned 11. SPEC. Corp. Tancho under AT Compatible(PentiumIII/800MHz), C,C++,ASM Ltd. Reiki Planned 13. Minata Sakura AT Compatible(PentiumII/400MHz), Planned C++ 14. Sekita Sekita Shogi 6 AT Compatible(Undecided) C++ 15. Takahashi Nazoteki Dengi DOS/V(Athlon/800MHz)*4, Planned C,C++ 17. Maruyama Maruyama Shogi ver0.5 DOS/V(PentiumII/366MHz) C 18. Dentsuudai S1.5 IBM/PC(PentiumIII/750MHz), Planned C Noshita Lab. 19. Wakabayashi Hyper Shogi 6 Undecided PASCAL 21. Takada Takada Shogi Ver.3.3 PowerBook G3(PPC750/400MHz) C,Java 22. Hakoda Maruden Shogi PC98NX note(MMXPentium/133MHz) C++ The programs #4 thru #22 are the seeds to the upper division contest. 24. Pauli Misikangas Shocky 3 Undecided C++ University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science (Finland) 25. Reijer Grimbergen SPEAR Gateway(PentiumIII/750MHz) C++ (Holland-Japan) 26. Shizuoka Univ. TACOS ver2 (Celeron/400MHz) C++ Iida Lab. 27. Yokoyama Yokoyama Shogi AT Compatible(K6-2?/350MHz) C,Java 28. Suzuki, Ike Suzuki Shogi DELL(PentiumIII/800MHz*2), Planned C++ 29. Tokyo Univ. of Sexy-AI-chan AT Compatible(PentiumIII/700MHz)*4, C Agri, & Tech. Kotani Lab. Planned 30. Kikuchi Kikuchi 1400 AT Compatible(PentiumIII/677MHz) C 31. Amano DNA Shogi Lavie NX(Celeron/400MHz), Planned C++ 32. Tsubakihara, Tsubakihara 2000 Gateway(PentiumII/300MHz) VB Fukumoto, Mori 33. Isobe Isobe Shogi AT Compatible(K6-3/475MHz) C++ 35. Yamada Yamada Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz) C 37. Ujiie Ujiie Shogi VAIO(MMXPentium/266Hz) C++ No-com. 39. Inoue INS2000 DOS/V(Undecided) VB,C 40. Waseda Univ. U10 Ver.2 AT Compatible(Alpha/600MHz), Planned C Tsutsumi Lab. (Participant of the 8th Championship) 8. Alphagram M-Brain (Alpha21164/500MHz) C 19. Seo Seo Shogi under Reiki DOS/V(Pentium/90MHz) C 20. Yano Yano Shogi 4 PC-9821Ra(PentiumII/266MHz) C (Participant of the 7th Championship) 17. Sakashita Sakashita Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumIII/700MHz), C Ver 1.0 Planned (New comers, order in application) --. Shuto Shuto Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz), Planned C --. Oosawa Oojiro DOS/V(PentiumIII/450MHz) C++ --. Tanaka Shogi Moba MobileGear MC-MK12(486/16MHz) C --. Fukuoka Fuku Shogi AT Compatible(Celeron/504MHz*2) C --. Hiruta Kiraku DOS/V(PentiumIII/500MHz) C --. Nakatani Ryu-no-Tamago (Celeron/450MHz), Planned C --. Shinohara Suzu-no-Ne COMPAQ 500a(Alpha21164A/500MHz), Planned C++ --. Okii Piece Captor AT Compatible(MMXPentium/266MHz) C++ --. Baba Hello! Baba Shogi PowerMac8100(PPC604/80MHz), Planned C No-com. --. Univ. of Tokyo Gekisashi AT Compatible(PentiumIII 700MHz*2), C++ Chikayama Lab. Planned --. Tsutsumi, S Aoi AT Compatible(PentiumIII/733MHz), Planned C++ --. Komura Hikaku AT Compatible(Athlon/500MHz), Planned C++ --. Shimada ken Shogi PowerMac7600(PPC750/233MHz) C No-com. --. Hasegawa SYOGI BOY Digital Hinite(Pentium/266MHz) C++ --. Nagayoshi Nagayoshi Shogi AT Compatible(Cyrix M2/233MHz) C --. Kuroda, K. Kanae DOS/V Notebook(Celeron/433MHz) C++ --. Arita Tokin-no-Osobaya AT Compatible(MII/300MHz), Planned C,C++ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54 Programs The numbers on the left are the result of the previous tournament. (Notes) DNA Shogi is the successor of Amano Shogi Jr. Maruden Shogi is the successor of Kenzo. Isobe Shogi is the successor of Taiteki. (Invited Program) SPS Kitahei for Windows95 Kitaihei will enter if the number of the lower division participants is odd. Number of recent applicants and participants. Championship #Applicants #Participants ------------ ----------- ------------- 7th 39 32 (82%) 8th 43 35 (81%) 9th 54 40 (74%) 10th 57 (Three applicants have already dropped.) Takenobu Takizawa