From: Mark Schreiber <mark_schreiber <at> hotmail <dot> com>
Date: 18 jan 2007
Subject: RE: Some thoughts on computer Shogi


Hi Tord.
Do you know the CSA SHOGI and Xshogi protocols for playing shogi? Maybe 
you can use them.

The CSA SHOGI protocol is used in the CSA annual computer tournament in 
Japan. I think every shogi program has it because everyone wants to play 
in the CSA tournament. See 
http://www.computer-shogi.org/protocol/tcp_ip_server_11_e.html

Xshogi provides an X11/Xt/Athena Widgets user interface for gnushogi. 
Xshogi is used with gnushogi. See 
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html

I wonder if ratings lists exist in the Japanese computer shogi community 
and if they do not exist then why? These are probably over 80 shogi 
programming teams.

Your effort to create a strong shogi engine and then give it away to 
help computer shogi programmers is generous. Good luck. Will your engine 
be playing in the CSA tournament in May?
Mark

Tord Romstad wrote:
> One of the most striking things about computer Shogi, from the
> perspective of a chess programmer, is the lack of "technical
> infrastructure".  In chess, there are two wide-spread chess engine
> protocols (the XBoard and UCI protocols) for communication between a
> chess engine and the GUI, and almost all of the about 400 publicly
> available chess engines support one or both of these protocols.  GUIs
> with support for these protocols exist for all major operating
> systems.
> Tord


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