From: Reijer Grimbergen <grim <at> yz <dot> yamagata-u <dot> ac <dot> jp>
Date: 26 jun 2005
Subject: Re: Gekisashi in Ama Rhuoh Tournament

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BTW1: Gekisashi also played an exhibition game against Nara=20
representative Shinoda (amateur 6-dan and one of the strongest players=20
in Japan) and won.

BTW2: The new amateur Ryu-O is Shimizugami, who also has played in the=20
US, if I remember correctly.

Reijer

Reijer Grimbergen wrote:

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> To add to this, Gekisashi also won the game in the first round of the=20
> knock-out stage. It actually played again against the representative=20
> from Osaka, Ogawa, who it had beaten in the preliminary stage. Ogawa=20
> entered the main tournament through the backdoor of the replay, but bad=
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> luck with the draw made him go down in history as the player who lost=20
> twice against the computer in the same tournament.
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> In the second round of the knock-out tournament, Gekisashi played=20
> against Tanaka, the representative from Fukui Prefecture. In this game=
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> the problem of computers got very clear, as Gekisashi could not find the=
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> proper opening strategy and got blown away quite easily.
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> This being said, the other three games were brilliant displays of how=20
> strong computer shogi is these days. I have attached the other two games.=

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> BTW, interesting that Gekisashi played the white pieces in all four games=
.
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> Reijer
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