From: TAKIZAWA Takenobu mnc waseda ac jp> Date: 03 feb 2007 Subject: The 17th WCSC (Announcement) The 17th World Computer Shogi Championship Participant List It is our pleasure to announce that the 17th World Computer Shogi Championship will be held in Japan in May 2007. There will be forty-seven (47) participants at the tournament. Takenobu Takizawa The Chair of the Executive Committee of the 17th championship The President of the Computer Shogi Association (CSA) Kentaro Kayama The Chief Adjudicator of the 17th championship A Director of the Computer Shogi Association -------------------------------------------------------------------- The 17th World Computer Shogi Championship Competition Dates May 3-5, 2007 Competition Venue Kazusa Akademia Center (Kazusa Arc) 2-3-9 Kazusa-Kamatari, Kisarazu-Shi, Chiba 292-0812, Japan Phone: 0438-20-5555 Fax: 0438-20-5139 (+81-438-20-5555) (+81-438-20-5139) http://www.kap.co.jp/ 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 (1st through 19th seeds, excluding the three direct finalists). The lower division contest will be held on the first 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 second 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. (Note that the CSA has implemented a minor change in the Swiss-style format used in the previous tournament.) 3rd day: The Final Round robin of 8 programs with each program playing each other once. The Participants: =============================================================================== Developer Program Machine(CPU/Clock) OS/ Language /Library ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Kunihito Hoki Bonanza Core Duo/T2600 WinXP C 2. Hiroshi Yamashita YSS undecided C++ 4. JAIST TACOS team TACOS undecided windows2003server C++ (The above three are the seeds to the final) 5. Team Gekisashi Gekisashi undecided 6. Yoshikazu Kakinoki Kakinoki-Shogi undecided WinXP C++ 7. Yuichi Nakatani Dragon's Egg undecided WinXP C++ 8. Otsuki Shogi Otsuki Shogi undecided 9. Akinori Onmoto Bingo Shogi undecided 10. Team GPS GPS shogi undecided C++ osl-for-csa 11. Keitaro Honda K-Shogi undecided C++ 12. Kinoa Kinoa Shogi 2.1G WinXP C 13. Kazufumi Nara Nara Shogi undecided C++ 14. Masayuki Isobe Shore Core2 Duo 6600 WinXP C++,Python 15. Tasuku Hanai WILDCAT Athlon64 X2/4800+ x2 WinXP C 16. Usapyon's Parents Usapyon Opteron280(2.4GHz/DualCore) x2 WinXP C++ 18. Jeff Rollason (UK) Shotest Athlon64/3700+ C++ 19. Masahito Takahashi Nazo's Digital Shogics Player Athlon64 X2/4800+ WinXP C/C++ 20. Junichi Takada Garyu undecided Java 21. Masaaki Arioka KFEnd undecided C++,Ruby (Team #5 thru #21 are the seeds to the upper division contest.) 22. Reijer Grimbergen (Netherlands) SPEAR undecided C++ 23. Norihisa Nishimura My Move Core Duo/T2600 WinXP VC++ 25. Yamada Taikou Yamada Shogi Athlon64 X2/4800+ FreeBSD C 26. TUAT Kotani Lab. Mattari-Yuuchan undecided 27. Ichiro Ujiie Auau Shogi PentiumM/1.7GHz WinXP C++ 28. Tomonobu Masumoto Oki undecided 30. Masahiko Tokita Daemon Shogi Celeron M 370 WinXP C 32. Koichi Nakao Ryuma Shogi undecided WinXP C++ 34. Yuichi Morioka Gasho!! Efficeon 1.6GHz WinXP C++ 35. HIT-Shogi Team HIT-Shogi + SS ver.0.41 Pentium4/3.19GHz WinXP Delphi 36. Masaki Mmurayama Narikin Shogi 1.7G WinXP VC++ 37. Hiroyuki Nagayoshi Hayabusa AMD Turion64 2.2GHz WinXP C 38. Larry Tu (USA) God Shogi undecided 39. Tsubakihara Shogi Tsubakihara Shogi Pentium4/3.06GHz WinXP Visual Basic 42. Kazuhiro Yasutake Misaki Athlon64 X2/4400+ x2 WinXP VC++ (Participant of the 12th Championship) 48. Ken Shogi Ken Shogi undecided (Participants of the 11th Championship) 46. Naohiro Yokoyama Aleph Zero undecided Java 51. Hidenori Kkawarabayashi PRED undecided WinXP (Participant of the 9th Championship) 39. Koichi Inoue Inoue Shogi undecided WinXP VB6,C (Newcomers) --. Hiroshi Mitani Yumeki undecided WinXP C++ --. Ayamari Project Ayamari Shogi undecided --. Yoshikuni Sato Tomi undecided C --. Akito Tsuboi Shallow Thoughts undecided --. Kazuyuki Kawabata Ayaka undecided C++ lesserpyon --. TSP TSP undecided --. Masaya Hasegawa Shogi Boy undecided --. TANASE Yasushi Tanase Shogi undecided WinXP --. Isamu Kuneguchi Kamepyon undecided C++ lesserpyon ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 47 *Team Member 4. JAIST TACOS team *Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Masafumi Taketoshi, Jun Nagashima, Keigo Matsubara, Akihiko Sano, Tomoki Murata, Takeaki Hamada, Jun'ichi Hashimoto 5. Team Gekisashi Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, *Daisaku Yokoyama, Takashi Maruyama, Ryo Takase, Takumi Oouchi 8. Otsuki Shogi *Tomoshi Otsuki, Natsumaro Kutsuna, Jun Araki 10. Team GPS Tetsuro Tanaka, Tomoyuki Kaneko, Daigo Moriwaki, Shunsuke Soeda, Yoshiki Hayashi, *Shogo Takeuchi 12. Kinoa *Motoki Yamada 16. Usapyon's Parents *Yasuhiro Ike, Yasuo Suzuki, Rumi Ike 26. TUAT Kotani Lab. *Keijirou Yanagi, Kazutomo Shibahara, Akira Suzuki, Yoshiyuki Kotani 35. HIT-Shogi Team Shohei Seike, Ryosuke Ohguchi, *Takeshi Ito 39. Tsubakihara Shogi *Osamu Tsubakihara, Masaaki Fukumoto, Kenji Mori (Participants of the 12th Championship) 48. Ken Shogi *Kenichiro Shimada (New comers) --. Ayamari Project *Hidenori Takeshima --. TSP *Tsuyoshi Kurota, Ko Sakai The numbers on the left are the result of the previous tournaments (Notes) Inoue Shogi is the successor of INS99. Aleph Zero is the successor of Yokoyama Shogi. (Invited Program) Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Kotani Laboratory 1 Sexy AI-chan Sexy AI-chan will enter if the number of the lower division participants is odd.. Number of recent applicants and participants. Championship #Applicants #Participants ------------ ----------- ------------- 11th 63 55 (87%) 12th 62 50 (81%) 13th 60 45 (75%) 14th 62 43 (69%) 15th 52 39 (75%) 16th 52 42 (81%) 17th 47 --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.aBVYf3.c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=TEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------