From: Takenobu Takizawa MSE WASEDA AC JP> Date: 16 mar 2000 Subject: Results of the 10th Computer Shogi Championship The 10th Computer Shogi Championship was held at Maihama, Japan, March 8 through 10, 2000. "IS Shogi" won the championship. There were 45 teames entered the tournament. 26 teams entered the lower-division contest and 8 teams (Ryu-no-Tamago, Isobe, SPEAR, Shocky 3, Oojiro, Geki-sashi, Yamada and Sakashita ver1.0) proceeded to the higher-division contest on the second dqy. These 8 programs and 16 other teams including Eisei-Meijin, IS, KCC, Kakinoki and Sogin (these 5 are the finalist of the last tounament) entered the higher-division contest and 5 teams (IS, Kawabata, KFEnd, Kakinoki and Shocky 3) were qualified to be the finalists. These 5 programs and the three seeds (Kanazawa, YSS 10 and SHOTEST v4.0) entered the final (round robin) on the third day. After the sixth game, Kanazawa, YSS, IS and Kawabata were 4-2. Because of the SB, we found that if Kanazawa won the last game then Kanazawa was the winner, if Kanazawa lost (vs YSS) then if Kawabata won KFEnd then Kawabata was the winner, if both Kanazawa and Kawabata lost the game then if IS won SHOTEST then IS was the winner, and if all of Kanazawa, Kawabata and IS lost the final game then YSS was the winner. Before Kanazawa lost the final game, IS had won and Kawabata had lost. So IS was the winner of the championship. YSS was second and Kawabata was third. The fourth was Kanazawa. For Kanazawa, this was the first time that the program was not the winner or the runners-up. We remember that IS lost the last game in the 8th championship two years ago when if the program had won IS was the winner but if it had lost it was fifth, and lost ths final game. This time, IS was lucky. We have four programs made by people other than Japanese. SPEAR was made by Reijer Grimbergen (The Netherlands-Japan), Shocky 3 by Pauli Misikangas (Finland), KCC by KCC team (North Korea) and SHOTEST v4.0 by Jeff Rollason (England). Both SPEAR and Shocky entered the lower-division and procdeeded to the higher-division contest. Shocky looked a little lucky to proceed to the final, but it managed to make two wins in the final. Reijer lent his faster machine to Pauli when Reijer could not enter the final. Mr. Takata, an administrator of the CSA posted the results on http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~jun1/csa/ I hope Reijer will post the detailed report on the championship. Takenobu Takizawa