From: Reijer Grimbergen FU IS SAGA-U AC JP> Date: 17 jun 2003 Subject: Re: New SPEAR release Dear Ito-san, Thank you for your comments on SPEAR. Chiaki Ito wrote: >hi. here is my two cents. > >1. i love koma (the pieces)! they are absolutely beautiful! > Thank you. They are just scans from my own wooden pieces. >2. when i had more than one koma on the same kind in my hand, it sometimes >becomes that the number which indicates how many koma of this kind i have >does not fit in the screen. it is because of my pc? > I have never heard of this problem before. It might be a problem with the fonts on your PC. I will put this on my list of things that I have to look into at some point. >3. it will be nice if we could show what moves computer are reading while >waiting for the turn. > I might do that in a later version (maybe next year). >4. i got an impression that this program plays passively. > > Well spotted. This is one of the biggest problem in my program at the moment and probably the most important reason for its bad result at the computer shogi tournament. I am hoping to use part of the summer to work on this, but it is one of the difficult problems of computer shogi. >attached is my first game with spear. > > Thanks. It looked like a devastating defeat for my program. I was hoping it might be about 1-dan, but this may be wishful thinking :-(. Reijer -- Reijer Grimbergen Department of Information Science Saga University 1 Honjo-machi, Saga-shi, 840-8502 Japan E-mail: grimbergen fu is saga-u ac jp URL: http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~grimberg/ Tel: +81-(0)952-28-8821 Fax: +81-(0)952-28-8650