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

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
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          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:
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Developer                  Program    Machine(CPU/Clock) OS/ Language /Library
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 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
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*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


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