Habu rewrites Shogi history!
The decisive 4th game in the Kio title match was again a difficult fight that
Habu decided in a close endgame. Moriuchi looked like he was playing as well as
he could, but in the end he only managed to win a game where his opening
preparation was superior. In all the other games Habu showed that he is simply
stronger than his childhood rival.
This is the 10th Kio title in a row that he has won and he is only the second
player in history to get 10 or more consecutive titles. The great Oyama
Yashuharu did it twice with 13 consecutive Meijin titles and 12 consecutive
Osho titles. Can Habu break these records?
Source: Reijer Grimbergen, posting to Shogi-L.
*****
22 March 2000
Shogi variant group
I've started up a Shogi Variant group (mailing list) at onelist.com.
You are invited to join if you are interested in email discussion of
shogi variants. The name of the group is "shogivar".
You may subscribe with an email to
shogivar-subscribe@onelist.com.
The shogivar homepage is at
http://www.onelist.com/group/shogivar.
The group has a few features in addition to the mailing list and its
archives. Most notably, group members may post files and links relating
to their favorite shogi variants. I've started off the Files section
with a set of Taikyoku Shogi scans (previously posted on Shogi Nexus).
Please address questions and ideas regarding the Shogi Variants group
to me personally unless they concern all of SHOGI-L. Thanks.
Source: Patrick Davin, posting to Shogi-L.
*****
17 March 2000
Shogi World Championship approaching
The Tournament Committee is pleased to announce following:
Four (4) Continents' Team Tournament will be held on May 22 (Mon.), next day after
the Championship!!! Receiving very enthusiastic reaction from all over the world,
the Committee decided to launch 4 Continents' Team Matches. 7-8 players of
All Europe, All Asia, All Central/South America and All USA will play for the team
on May 22nd (Monday). Selection of the team captain and players shall be announced
later by the committee. Participants, please try to stay in New York until Monday
(5/22) afternoon to watch or to participate with this first trial of 4 Continents'
Team Matches.
Congratulations to the winners!!! Following countries held qualifying matches to
send winners to New York:
BRAZIL: Mr. Katsumasa Egoshi
FRANCE: Mr. Guillaume Schmidt
MALAYSIA: Mr. Chuichiro Yamada
NETHERLANDS: Mr. Marc Theeuwen
NORWAY: Mr. Terje Christoffersen
THAILAND: Mr. Chiaki Ito
Countries having fixed date for qualifying:
HONG KONG: March 18
RUSSIA : April 1-2
Mid AMERICA : April 1 (Midwest Shogi Championship)
SWEDEN: April 7 (Swedish Shogi Championship)
NEW YORK: April 8
FINLAND: April 8
BRITAIN: May 8 (British Open Championship)
Countries to schedule later:
Germany, Washington, Italy/Austria(Play off).
Registration of general participants are increasing everyday. For more information,
please click: NY Shogi Home Page.
We welcome you to New York! You will enjoy the largest shogi tournament ever
held outside of Japan.
Total Prize: Exceeding $15,000
Register to: SMASUI@BANET.NET
Source: Shigeki Masui, Executive Director of Communication of the Tournament
*****
Results of the 10th Computer Shogi Championship
The 10th Computer Shogi Championship was held at Maihama, Japan,
March 8 through 10, 2000.
|
Program |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
7 |
8 |
+ |
- |
= |
SOLC |
SB |
MD |
Rank |
| 1 |
Kanazawa Shogi |
X
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
24.0 |
13.0 |
6.0 |
4 |
| 2 |
YSS 10 |
1 |
X
|
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
23.0 |
14.0 |
8.0 |
2 |
| 3 |
Shotest 4.0 |
0 |
0 |
X
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
26.0 |
6.0 |
0.0 |
7 |
| 4 |
IS Shogi |
0 |
1 |
1 |
X
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
5 |
2 |
0 |
23.0 |
15.0 |
8.0 |
1 |
| 5 |
Kawabata Shogi |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
X
|
0 |
1 |
1 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
24.0 |
16.0 |
9.0 |
3 |
| 6 |
KFEnd |
1 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
X
|
0 |
0 |
2 |
5 |
0 |
26.0 |
8.0 |
4.0 |
6 |
| 7 |
Kakinoki Shogi |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
X
|
1 |
4 |
3 |
0 |
24.0 |
10.0 |
4.0 |
5 |
| 8 |
Shocky 3 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
X
|
2 |
5 |
0 |
26.0 |
4.0 |
2.0 |
8 |
"IS Shogi" won the championship.
45 teams entered the tournament. 26 teams entered the
lower-division contest and 8 teams (Ryu-no-Tamago, Isobe, SPEAR,
Shocky 3, Oojiro, Geki-sashi, Yamada and Sakashita ver1.0) proceeded
to the higher-division contest on the second day.
These 8 programs and 16 other teams including Eisei-Meijin, IS, KCC,
Kakinoki and Sogin (these 5 are the finalist of the last tournament)
entered the higher-division contest and 5 teams (IS, Kawabata, KFEnd,
Kakinoki and Shocky 3) were qualified to be the finalists.
These 5 programs and the three seeds (Kanazawa, YSS 10 and SHOTEST v4.0)
entered the final (round robin) on the third day.
After the sixth game, Kanazawa, YSS, IS and Kawabata were 4-2.
Because of the SB, we found that if Kanazawa won the last game then
Kanazawa was the winner, if Kanazawa lost (vs YSS) then if Kawabata
won KFEnd then Kawabata was the winner, if both Kanazawa and Kawabata
lost the game then if IS won SHOTEST then IS was the winner, and if
all of Kanazawa, Kawabata and IS lost the final game then YSS was
the winner.
Before Kanazawa lost the final game, IS had won and Kawabata had lost.
So IS was the winner of the championship. YSS was second and Kawabata
was third. The fourth was Kanazawa.
For Kanazawa, this was the first time that the program was not the winner
or the runners-up. We remember that IS lost the last game in the 8th
championship two years ago when if the program had won IS was the winner
but if it had lost it was fifth, and lost ths final game. This time,
IS was lucky.
We have four programs made by people other than Japanese.
SPEAR was made by Reijer Grimbergen (The Netherlands-Japan), Shocky 3 by
Pauli Misikangas (Finland), KCC by KCC team (North Korea) and SHOTEST v4.0
by Jeff Rollason (England).
Both SPEAR and Shocky entered the lower-division and procdeeded to the
higher-division contest. Shocky looked a little lucky to proceed to the
final, but it managed to make two wins in the final. Reijer lent his
faster machine to Pauli when Reijer could not enter the final.
Mr. Takata, an administrator of the CSA posted the results on
Computer Shogi Association homepage.
I hope Reijer will post the detailed report on the championship.
Source: Takenobu Takizawa, posting to Shogi-L. and CSA homepage
*****
German Shogi Championship 2000, results
Here are the results of the German Shogi Championship 2000 played in Göttingen
on 4-5 March 2000. The winner of this tournament was supposed to go to New York as
representative of Shogi Deutschland and the best native German player should receive
the title of German Shogi champion 2000.
The fight for first place was pretty decisive, as Ichiyanagi Kei won all his
games. The german championship had to be decided by tiebreak though with four
players on three points. But Alexander Engelhardt and Leo Dreblow did not want
to play and the championship had to be decided by a playoff between titleholder
Boris Mirnik and Thomas Majewski. After a mistake in the opening this game was
rather one-sided and Boris Mirnik was declared German Shogi Champion for the
third time in a row.
| Pl. |
Name |
Str |
Co. |
MMS |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
Pt |
SOS |
SOSOS |
| 1 |
Ichiyanagi Kei |
4d |
J |
4 |
7+ |
8+ |
6+ |
2+ |
4 |
9 |
42 |
| 2 |
Mirnik Boris |
3d |
D |
3 |
9+ |
4+ |
3+ |
1- |
3 |
12 |
34 |
| 3 |
Engelhardt Alexander |
2k |
D |
3 |
13+ |
5+ |
2- |
10+ |
3 |
9 |
34 |
| 4 |
Dreblow Leo |
2k |
D |
3 |
12+ |
2- |
9+ |
7+ |
3 |
8 |
38 |
| 5 |
Majewski Thomas |
2d |
D |
3 |
14+ |
3- |
8+ |
6+ |
3 |
8 |
35 |
| 6 |
Drechsler Jochen |
1d |
D |
2 |
11+ |
10+ |
1- |
5- |
2 |
11 |
30 |
| 7 |
Kottke Markus |
6k |
D |
2 |
1- |
11+ |
13+ |
4- |
2 |
10 |
30 |
| 8 |
Greb Wolfgang |
1k |
D |
2 |
15+ |
1- |
5- |
14+ |
2 |
9 |
29 |
| 9 |
Rama Hendrik |
8k |
D |
2 |
2- |
15+ |
4- |
12+ |
2 |
8 |
34 |
| 10 |
Wolfram Till |
15k |
D |
2 |
free |
6- |
12+ |
3- |
2 |
7 |
35 |
| 11 |
Böttcher Hans-Joachim |
10k |
D |
2 |
6- |
7- |
15+ |
13+ |
2 |
6 |
34 |
| 12 |
Gerards Hans |
11k |
D |
1 |
4- |
14+ |
10- |
9- |
1 |
8 |
29 |
| 13 |
Benecke Andreas |
12k |
D |
1 |
3- |
free |
7- |
11- |
1 |
7 |
32 |
| 14 |
Krauss Ulrich |
9k |
D |
1 |
5- |
12- |
free |
8- |
1 |
6 |
31 |
| 15 |
Kressing Florian |
10k |
D |
1 |
8- |
9- |
11- |
free |
1 |
6 |
29 |
Source: Thomas Majewski, posting to Shogi-L.
*****
6 March 2000
St. Petersburg defeats Moscow
The qualification tournament for the World Championship, in St. Petersburg 4-5
of March is, due to some unpleasant situation in St. Petersburg Shogi Club, changed
to be played in Moscow after 2-3 weeks.
Instead there was a match between St. Petersburg and Moscow teams.
It was played with 45 minutes and byoyomi 1 move - 1 minute.
First Round
Moscow - St. Petersburg
Nikonov- Illarionov 0-1
Kislyuk- Minin 0-1
Makarov- Volfson 1-0
Filippov-Larionov 1-0
Nosovsky- Rodionov 1-0
3-2
Second Round
Nikonov- Novikova 0-1
Kislyuk- Rodionov 1-0
Makarov- Fedoseev 1-0
Filippov-Minin 0-1
Nosovsky- Larionov 1-0
3-2
Third Round
Nikonov- Shpilev 1-0
Kislyuk- Larionov 1-0
Makarov- Minin 0-1
Filippov-Volfson 0-1
Nosovsky- Illarionov 0-1
2-3
Fourth Round
Nikonov- Minin 1-0
Kislyuk- Illarionov 0-1
Makarov- Shpilev 0-1
Filippov-Fedoseev 0-1
Nosovsky- Volfson 0-1
1-4
St. Petersburg won 11-9 against Moscow.
Source: Alexander Nosovsky, posting to Shogi-L.
*****
Goteborg Defeats Stockholm
The JavaShogi game between two consulting
teams from Goteborg and Stockholm was
played Thursday, 17 February. The Goteborg team consisted of eight players,
among those the two 1-dan players Carl Johan Nilsson
and Martin Danerud. In Stockholm six (?) players were
gathered, among those were Christer Hartman (1-kyu)
and Thore Angqvist (2-kyu). Goteborg defeated Stockholm.
Please observe that the main idea with this traditional JavaShogi
match is that the weaker kyu players get a chance to
take part in a game with not too many mistakes. They
also get a chance to test their ideas in the sometimes
wild discussions going on in the teams. The two matches
played until now have displayed interesting, but of course
far from perfect, shogi.
Source: Dr. Martin Danerud, President of the Swedish Shogi Federation, posted this report to Shogi-L.
*****
Habu Wins Fifth Consecutive Osho Title
Habu won game four of the Osho match to take his fifth consecutive Osho
title with a remarkable 4-0 sweep. The pattern looked to be the same in this
game as in the other games, with Habu winning a close endgame. Knowing Sato's
ambition to be a true rival of Habu, this result must be a big blow for him.
Source: Reijer Grimbergen posted this report to the Shogi-List.
*****
Russian Group Joins FESA
I officially welcome the Association of Russian
Shogi Players (ARSP) as a member of the Federation
of European Shogi Associations (FESA). The temporary
board consists of Mr. Alexander Nosovsky (international
contacts) and Mr. Lev Kisluk. Those are also the FESA
representatives. The ultimate intention of ARSP is to
establish the Russian Shogi Federation, officially recognized
by the Russian state.
However, the requirements for being accepted as a federation
by the Russian state are 45 clubs and a coverage of at least
51 % of the 89 Russian states. We in FESA wish them good
luck, and in the meantime we welcome them to take part in
our activities.
Dr. Martin Danerud
Acting president of FESA
Source: Dr. Martin Danerud posted this report to the Shogi-List.
*****
Habu takes two game lead in Osho title match
Habu has also won the second game of the Osho match against challenger Sato Yasumitsu. Habu was attacking all the time, but the feeling was (including his own) that his attack was not good enough. However, under pressure Sato finally made a mistake and lost.
Source: Reijer Grimbergen posted this report to the Shogi-List.
*****
Statistics in Shukan Shogi #821
There are interesting statistics regarding Sente's (Black's) winning rate in Shukan Shogi #821. [Black moves first.] In pro official games from last April to November, Sente's winning rate is below .500. The details are as follows.
- Manabu Terao
|
Strategy |
Sente's Winning Rate |
Games |
|
All games |
.488 |
1523 |
|
Yagura |
.547 |
256 |
|
Shikenbisha |
.465 |
376 |
|
Sente (Black's) Shikenbisha |
.409 |
171 |
|
Gote (White's) Shikenbisha |
.512 |
205 |
|
Yokorutori (Side pawn) |
.445 |
211 |
|
Chuza Bisha (Yokofu R8e variation) |
.467 |
120 |
Source: Manabu Terao posted this report to the Shogi-List.
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*****
Moscow Open & Kyu-Dan Test
THE MOSCOW SHOGI Open & Kyu-Dan Test were played 6-7 January 2000.
The Handicap Japanese-Russian Team Match was held the next day.
- Alexander Nosovsky
Nat = Nationality.
|
No. |
Name |
Grade |
Nat |
R1 |
R2 |
R3 |
R4 |
Score |
Place |
|
1 |
Nakao Osamu |
6dan-Pro |
Japan |
8+ |
6+ |
4+ |
2+ |
4 |
1 |
|
2 |
Moro Takemi |
3dan |
Japan |
9+ |
5+ |
3+ |
1- |
3 |
2-3 |
|
3 |
Muro Tadashi |
3dan |
Japan |
10+ |
15+ |
2- |
9+ |
3 |
4 |
|
4 |
Tatsutomi Hiroyuki |
3dan |
Japan |
11+ |
7+ |
1- |
5+ |
3 |
2-3 |
|
5 |
Nikonov Konstantin |
1dan |
Russia |
12+ |
2- |
15+ |
4- |
2 |
6-8 |
|
6 |
Kislyuk Lev |
4kyu |
Russia |
13+ |
1- |
11- |
10- |
1 |
12 |
|
7 |
Makarov Pavel |
8kyu |
Russia |
14+ |
4- |
13+ |
11- |
2 |
6-8 |
|
8 |
Filippov Sergey |
8kyu |
Russia |
1- |
11- |
10- |
--+ |
1 |
13 |
|
9 |
Shpilyov Yuri |
2kyu |
Russia |
2- |
12+ |
14+ |
3- |
2 |
6-8 |
|
10 |
Nosovsky Alexander |
9kyu |
Russia |
3- |
13- |
8+ |
6+ |
2 |
9 |
|
11 |
Segal Lev |
9kyu |
Russia |
4- |
8+ |
6+ |
7+ |
3 |
5 |
|
12 |
Suhanov Ilja |
11kyu |
Russia |
5- |
9- |
--+ |
15+ |
2 |
11 |
|
13 |
Tatsutomi Hirokazu |
10kyu |
Japan |
6- |
10+ |
7- |
14+ |
2 |
10 |
|
14 |
Shpilyova Galina |
13kyu |
Russia |
7- |
--+ |
9- |
13- |
1 |
15 |
|
15 |
Astafjev Yevgeni |
13kyu |
Russia |
--+ |
3- |
5- |
12- |
1 |
14 |
Participants of Kyu Test
|
No. |
Name |
Grade |
Nat |
|
16 |
Plahotskii Sergeu |
8kyu |
Russia |
|
17 |
Krasnonosov Dmitriy |
10kyu |
Russia |
|
18 |
Ivanov Roman |
14kyu |
Russia |
|
19 |
Zolotarev Valeriy |
14kyu |
Russia |
|
20 |
Kochnev Il'ya |
14kyu |
Russia |
|
21 |
Volkov Ivan |
15kyu |
Russia |
Japanese-Russian Handicap Match and Kyu-Dan Test
The Handicap Japanese-Russian Match was held 8 January. Japan
emerged victorious with a score of 10-2.
|
Japanese Team |
Grade |
Handicap |
Score |
Russian Team |
Grade |
|
Nakao O. |
6dan-Pro |
R, L |
2-0 |
Nikonov K. |
1dan |
|
Moro T. |
3dan |
R, L |
2-0 |
Shpilev Y. |
2kyu |
|
Muro T. |
3dan |
R, B |
2-0 |
Kisluk L. |
4kyu |
|
Tatsutomi H. |
3dan |
R, B, 2L |
2-0 |
Makarov P. |
8kyu |
|
Tsukada T. |
2dan |
R, B, 2L, 2N |
2-0 |
Nosovsky A. |
9kyu |
|
Tatsutomi Hz. |
10kyu |
no handicap |
0-2 |
Segal L. |
9kyu |
Kyu - Dan Test
|
Name |
Grade |
|
Mozzhorin M. |
8kyu |
|
Taranin D. |
8kyu |
Source: Alexander Nosovsky posted this report to the Shogi-List.
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