From: "Daniel M. Toebbens" <toebbens <at> HMI <dot> DE>
Date: 3 sep 2002
Subject: Re: Computer programs

On Sun, 1 Sep 2002, Yoshi Niwata wrote:

> If you prefer to play against Furibisha, I recommend Todai-shogi "Furibisha
> dojo" which I have. This contains an excellent study part of the strategy
> against Furibisha written by Kazuharu Shoshi 6 dan.

Its not that I prefer to play against Furibisha. But I prefer to play
against as many different systems as possible. And my AI Shogi by itself
did never play a Furibisha up to now.

> Concerning the problem in AI Shogi you have, It must have "Furibisha mode"
> but you may have a very old version. Which version are you playing with? I
> can ask ASCII directly.

It is the 1999 version of the program. Actually it has a Furibisha mode.
And in the meantime I managed to get it to actually play Furibisha. I have
the impression, that this setting is something like a soft mode. It does
seem to preserve the ability of the program to play Ibisha. Seems like it
does not want to play Furibisha against the openings I played when I
tested this setting the last time. ;-)


Daniel Többens