From: TAKIZAWA Takenobu <takizawa <at> mnc <dot> waseda <dot> ac <dot> jp>

Subject: The announcement of the 16th World Computer Shogi Championship (Participant Lis

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The 16th World Computer Shogi Championship Participant List

It is our pleasure to announce that the 16th World Computer Shogi
Championship will be held in Japan in May 2006.
There will be fifty-two (52) participants at the tournament.

Takenobu Takizawa
The Chair of the Executive Committee of the 16th championship
The President of the Computer Shogi Association (CSA)
Kentaro Kayama
The Chief Adjudicator of the 16th championship
A Director of the Computer Shogi Association
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          The 16th World Computer Shogi Championship

 Competition Dates
         May 3-5, 2006

 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/
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 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.

 3rd day: The Final
  Round robin of 8 programs with each program playing each other
  once.


The Participants:
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Developer                  Program    Machine(CPU/Clock) OS/ Language /Libr=
ary
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 1. Team Gekisashi         Gekisashi          undecided  Linux    C++
 2. KCC Shogi Team (North Korea) KCC Shogi    undecided           VC++
 4. Hiroshi Yamashita      YSS                undecided  Win2000  C++
(The above three are the seeds to the final)

 5. Akinori Onmoto         Bingo Shogi        undecided
 6. JAIST TACOS team       TACOS              undecided           C++
 7. Yuichi Nakatani        Dragon's Egg       undecided  WinXP
 8. Team GPS               GPS shogi          undecided       C++  osl-for-=
csa
 9. Masaaki Arioka         KFEnd              undecided  Linux    C++,Ruby
10. Yoshikazu Kakinoki     Kakinoki Shogi     undecided           C++
11. Shinichiro Kanazawa    Kanazawa Shogi     undecided  Linux    C
12. Tomoshi Otsuki, Natsumaro Kutsuna
                           Otsuki Shogi       undecided
13. Jeff Rollason (UK)     Shotest v8.0       3.5 GHz             C++
14. Masayuki Isobe         Shore              undecided           C++/Pytho=
n
15. Kazufumi Nara          Nara Shogi         undecided           C++
16. Reijer Grimbergen (The Netherlands) SPEAR undecided           C++
17. Masahito Takahashi     Nazo's Digital Shogics Player
                                       Athlon64x2/4800+  WinXP    C/C++
19. Kinoa                  Kinoa Shogi        undecided           C
20. Keitaro Honda          K-Shogi            undecided           C++
21. Usapyon's Parents      Usapyon            Opteron280(2.4GHz/DualCore) x=
2
                                                       WinXP    C++  lesser=
pyon
(Team #5 thru #21 are the seeds to the upper division contest.)

22. Tasuku Hanai           WILDCAT            undecided           C
23. Taikou Yamada          Yamada Shogi       undecided           C
25. Toru Maruyama          Maruyama Shogi     undecided
26. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Kotani Laboratory
                           mattari-yuchan     undecided
27. Ichiro Ujiie           Auau Shogi         undecided
28. Tomonobu Masumoto      oki                undecided
30. Norihisa Nishimura     My Move            undecided
31. Team of Sugi Shogi Development
                           Sugi Shogi    Athlon XP/2400+   Linux  C
32. Masaki Murayama        Narikin Shogi      undecided
33. Koichi Nakao           Ryuma Shogi        undecided  WinXP    C++
34. Tsubakihara Shogi      Tsubakihara Shogi  Pentium4/3000+ WinXP Visual B=
asic
36. HIT Shogi Team         HIT Shogi + SS ver.0.40  undecided     Delphi
37. Hiroyuki Nagayoshi     Hayabusa           AMD Turion64 2.2GHz C
39. Masahiko Tokita        Daemon Shogi       undecided

(Participant of the 14th Championship)
18. Satoshi Tsutsumi       Aoi                undecided  Linux    C/C++

(Participant of the 13th Championship)
27. Kiyokazu Osawa         OJIRO              PentiumM            C++

(Participants of the 12th Championship)
25. Junichi Takada         undecided          undecided           Java
48. Ken Shogi              Ken Shogi          undecided

(Participants of the 11th Championship)
34. Kenta Amano            AmanoSouho2        Celeron/2.4GHz  Win2000
46. Naohiro Yokoyama       Aleph Zero         undecided           Java
51. Hidenori Kawarabayashi meijin konta       undecided  WinXP    Delphi+VC=


(Participant of the 10th Championship)
44. Hisashi Kikuchi        KIKUTI2000         undecided

(Participant of the 9th Championship)
39. Koichi Inoue           Inoue Shogi        undecided

(Participant of the 5th Championship)
13. Masanori Ogawa         Soumato            undecided

(Newcomers)
--. Kazuhiro Yasutake      misaki             undecided  WinXP    C++
--. Kunihito Hoki (Canada) Bonanza            undecided
--. GodMaster Shogi Team (USA) GodMaster      undecided
--. Kosaku Inagaki         Inagaki Shogi      undecided
--. Yoshinori Higashiuchi  AVANTE             undecided           C++
--. Yuichi Morioka         Gasyou!            Athlon64 X2 3800+=20=20
                                                 Linux Java  JavaShogiLib(1=
.0)
--. Yasushi Tanase         undecided          Athlon64 FX-55/2.6GHz WinXP C=
++
--. Masaya Hasegawa        Shogi Boy          undecided
--. Takeshi Masuda         Masuda Shogi       undecided  WinXP    Java
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*Team Members
 1. Team Gekisashi           *Yoshimasa Tsuruoka, Daisaku Yokoyama,=20
                              Takashi Maruyama, Ryo Takase, Takumi Ouchi
 2. KCC Shogi Team           *KyongNam An, KwangHyok Pak, YongMin Ri,=20
                              RyoHoon Hong
 6. JAIST TACOS team         *Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, Masafumi Taketoshi,=20
                              Jun Nagashima, Keigo Matsubara,=20
                              Akihiko Sano, Tomoki Murata,=20
                              Takeaki Hamada,  Jun'ichi Hashimoto
 8. Team GPS                  Tetsuro Tanaka, Tomoyuki Kaneko,
                              Shunsuke Soeda, Yoshiki Hayashi,
                             *Shogo Takeuchi
19. Kinoa                    *Motoki Yamada
21. Usapyon's Parents        *Yasuhiro Ike, Yasuo Suzuki, Rumi Ike
26. Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Kotani Laboratory
                             *Kazutomo Shibahara, Akira Suzuki,=20
                              Yoshiyuki Kotani
31. Team of Sugi Shogi Development  *Kazuhito Sugiyama, Toru Horie
34. Tsubakihara  Shogi       *Osamu Tsubakihara, Masaaki Fukumoto, Kenji Mo=
ri
36. HIT Shogi Team            Shohei Seike, Ryosuke Ohguchi, *Takeshi Ito
(Participant of the 12th Championship)
48. Ken Shogi                *Kenichiro Shimada
(Newcomer)
--. GodMaster Shogi Team     *Larry Tu

 The numbers on the left are the result of the previous tournaments.


 (Notes)
 Shore is the successor of Isobe Shogi.
 Inoue Shogi is the successor of INS99.
 Soumato is the successor of Ogawa Shogi.
 Aleph Zero is the successor of Yokoyama Shogi.
 Yasushi Tanase himself refused to be seeded in the final or
 in the upper division contest; instead, his program will enter=20
 the lower division contest.

 (Invited Program)
       SPS           Kitahei for Windows95
  Kitaihei will enter if the number of the lower division participants is o=
dd.

 Number of recent applicants and participants.
 Championship  #Applicants  #Participants
 ------------  -----------  -------------
 9th            54           40  (74%)
 10th           57           45  (79%)
 11th           63           55  (87%)
 12th           62           50  (81%)
 13th           60           45  (75%)
 14th           62           43  (69%)
 15th           52           39  (75%)
 16th           52
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