From: Takenobu Takizawa MSE WASEDA AC JP> Date: 18 feb 1999 Subject: 9th Computer Shogi Championship Participant List The 9th Computer Shogi Championship Participant List It is my pleasure to announce that the 9th Computer Shogi Champiohship will be held in Japan in March 1999. There will be fifty four participants at the tournament. Takenobu Takizawa Chairman of the Executive Comittee Vice-Chairman of the Computer Shogi Association (CSA) -------------------------------------------------------------------- The 9th Computer Shogi Championship Competition Dates: March 18-19, 1999 Competition Venue: Sheraton Grande Tokyo Bay Hotel 1-9 Maihama, Urayasu, Chiba 279, Japan Phone: 047-355-5555 FAX: 047-355-5566 1st day: Preliminary Contest The top 3 of the last tournament will be exempted from this day, and proceed directly to the Final. The Preliminary Contest is divided into two groups. The upper division will consist of 16 programs (first through 19th seeds except three direct finalists). The lower division contest will be held in the morning. There will be 5 Swiss-style games. The top 4 programs and programs which lose only once will join the upper division contest. If the number of such programs is odd, the CSA will add an extra program by invitation. The upper division contest will be held in the afternoon. There will be 7 Swiss-style games. The top 5 programs will proceed to the second day of copetition. The invited program will not proceed to the second day. 2nd day: The Final Round robin of 8 programs with each program playing each other once. The Participants: ============================================================================= Program Owner Program Name PC name(CPU, clock) Programming Language ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Tanase, Goto IS Shogi Gateway(PentiumII/450MHz) C Kishimoto 2. Kanazawa Kanazawa Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz) C 3. Jeff Rollason SHOTEST v3.0 AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz) C (UK) These three are the seeds to the final. 4. Kakinoki Kakinoki Shogi PowerMac(PPC750/400MHz), Planned C 5. Yamashita YSS 9.0 (Alpha21264/500MHz), Planned C 6. Morita Morita Shogi 8 Undecided C 7. Koizumi Sougin PAT-PII300L(PentiumII/300MHz) C++ 8. Alphagram M-Brain2 Polywell(Alpha/533MHz), Planned C 9. Yoshimura Eisei Meijin (PentiumII/450MHz), Planned C,C++ 10. Sekita Sekita Shogi 5 AT Compatible C++ (Celeron/450MHz+MMXPentium/266MHz), Planned 11. Amano, K. Amano Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumII/300MHz+alpha?) C++ 12. Dentsuudai S1.4 IBM/PC Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz), C Nishita Lab. Planned 13. Takada Takada Shogi PowerBook3400c(PPC603e/240MHz) C,Java Ver. 3.2 14. Maruyama Maruyama Shogi DOS/V(Celeron/333MHz) C++ Ver 0.4 15. SPEC. Corp. Tancho 4under PC9821Ra(PentiumII/266MHz) C,C++,ASM Ltd. Reiki Planned 16. Wakabayashi Hyper Shogi 5 DELL(PentiumII/450MHz) PASCAL 17. Kawabata Kawabata Shogi DELL(PentiumII/450MHz) Java 18. Arioka KFEnd PowerBook2400c(PPC750L/320MHz), Planned C++ 20. Yano Yano Shogi 4 PC-9821Ra(PentiumII/266MHz) C The programs #4 thru #20 are the seeds to the upper division contest. 23. Hakoda Kenzo PC98NX(Pentium/133MHz), Planned C++ 24. Yamada, Y. Yamada Shogi AT Compatible(Pentium/200MHz) C No-com. 25. Grimbergen SPEAR Gateway(PentiumII/450MHz) C++ (Holland-Japan) 27. Takahashi Nazoteki Dengi DOS/V(PentiumII/375MHz*2) C++ 28. Yokoyama Yokoyama Shogi AT Compatible(Pentium/75MHz), Planned Java,C++ 29. Tokyo Univ. of Sexy-AI-chan PA-8000(180MHz)*8 C Agri, & Tech. Kotani Lab. Inspiron(PentiumII/233MHz) 30. Kikuchi Kikuchi 1200 AT PC(PentiumII/450MHz) Java 32. Tsubakihara Tsubakihara Shogi Gateway(PentiumII/300MHz) VB No-com? Fukumoto, Mori (Participant of the 7th Championship) --. Amano, Jr. Amano Shogi Jr. DOS/V(Pentium/200MHz) C++ (New comers, order in application) --. Hisamori hs Version 1.0 AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz), C++ Planned --. Tsurumaki M-R FBX450/Dual(PentiumII/450MHz*2) C++ --. Abe AL Shogi FLORA(MMXPentium/166MHz) C++ --. Shimada ken Shogi PowerBook1400(PPC750/233MHz), C No-com? Planned --. Sugimoto Kisou Tenkai AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz) PASCAL --. Suzuki, G. GS Shogi AT Compatible(Celeron/450MHz) C++ --. Shizuoka Univ. TACOS Gateway(PentiumII/450MHz), Planned C++ Iida Lab. --. Ito, Deep Purple Undecided C (USA) --. Komura Hikaku Undecided C++ --. Sunada Sunada Shogi Ver1.0 ThinkPad(MMXPentium/266MHz) C --. Arita Tokin no AT Compatible(Pentium/100MHz), C,C++ Oso-Baya Planned No-com. --. KCC Shogi Team Silver Shogi AT Compatible(PentiumII/450MHz) C++ (North Korea) --. Minada Sakura or Shin-Meijin AT Compatible(PentiumII/?) C++ --. Suzuki, Y. Suzuki Shogi AT Compatible(Pentium/300MHz) C++ under CSA Shogi --. Beal, Smith MD-Shogi AT Compatible C (UK) --. Isbe, Iwasa Taiteki AT Compatible(PentiumII/233MHz) C++ --. Oshuu Oshuu Shogi V1.0 FN-300(K6-2/300MHz), Planned C++ --. Misikangas Universal Shogi + Shocky Undecided C++ (Finland) --. Ujiie Ujiie Shogi VAIO(Pentium?/166MHz) C++ --. Nagayoshi Nagayoshi Shogi DOS/V(K6/200MHz) C --. Hasegawa SHOGI BOY Digital Hinote(Pentium/266MHz) C++ --. Hiruta (Sega) Undecided Undecided C --. Waseda Univ. U10(U-juu) Panasonic(MMXPentium/200MHz), C Tsutsumi Lab. Planned No-com. --. Taniguchi Think SPARC, Planned C --. Kawarabayashi Meijin Kon-ta DOS/V(K6-2/350MHz) PASCAL --. Inoue INS99 DOS/V(Pentium/90MHz), Planned C ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 54 Programs The numbers on the left are the result of the previous tournament. Eisei Meijin is the successor of Yoshimura Shogi. Yokoyama Shogi is the successor of YYY. Sexy-AI-chan is the successor of Shochan (Invited Program) SPS Kitaihei for Windows95 Kitaihei will enter if the number of the lower division participants is odd. Takenobu Takizawa