From: "Bernhard C. März" arcor de> Date: 14 may 2007 Subject: RE: Freeware WCSC Programs! I hope I was not missunderstood: Shogi Variants is also a nice program,=20 but at the moment I like to make a table with at least medium-strength=20 programs. By the way: I've played a few games against Shogi Variants and the=20 variants Minishogi and Judkingsshogi made some fun. :-) Still after the first tries, I gave handicap in Judkings shogi (latest:=20 Rook+Bishop). ;-) In the meantime I've found one more free playable WCSC-program: Isobe=20 Shogi RAZA 2006 wrote: >=20 >=20 > Steve Evans wrote: > >=20 > > As the program author I think I can safely say that the difficulty=20 > > levels of "Weak" & "Less Weak", are actually overstating its capability= .=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > :-) > > Shogi Variants has no AI to speak of, and as Bernhard says, its intende= d=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > purpose is for play against a human opponent or as a tool to learn abou= t=20 > >=20 > >=20 > > the various historical variants. > >=20 > > Cheers, Steve=20=20=20=20=20 >=20 > Your program will always have a special place in my heart. When I didn't= =20 >=20 > know how to play Shogi it was your program that taught me the rules and= =20 > how to play. And believe it or not it beat me the first couple of times= =20 > :) >=20 > RAZA 2007 --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= aB5TiY.= 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=3DTEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------