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2nd DenOu-sen(Man vs Machine match) has been announced by JSA

This is the duplication of my post to 81 square universe forum yesterday.

JSA announced today that the second DenOu-sen will be held in the year of 2013, not in 2012. The human player will be 4-dan Funae Kouhei. The computer player will be one of the excellent performers in the coming 22nd World Computer Shogi Championship scheduled in May. The source information in Japanese can be found here.

Funae is twenty-four years old now and he became 4-dan in 2010. He won the Kakogawa Seiryu-sen tournament in 2011 and is one of the leading runners in the current C2 Juni-sen by making seven consecutive victories without losing a game along with 4-dan Abe Kenjiro and 5-dan Nakamura Taichi. His rating is 36th place at the end of December 2011, which is the highest of all the 4-dan holders. An official match between a young and promising professional player and a machine will be materialized at last.

Shogi Man vs Machine match - Yonenaga to play against Bonkras(Machine) at 19:00(JST)

Prior to the Man vs Machine match between retired Yonenaga Kunio who is Permanent Kisei Bonkras who is the champion of World  Computer Shogi Championship 2011 to be scheduled on January 14, 2012, a preliminary match between the same players will be hold at 19:00(JST) at T-Room in Tokyo Dojo of SC24. I would recommend you to login fairy earlier than the match-starting time since it is highly likely to be overfilled if you would like to watch the live game there. The allotted thinking time would be one minutes and both players will have to make a move less than 60 seconds per move after consuming the alloted time.

Bankras is Sente and Yonenaga is White. This is the same as the coming match with three hour allotted thinking time per player next year. They say Yonenaga will make a weird move at the second move if Bonkras makes P-7f as the first move.

For Japanese-speaking people, a live commentary show of the game is available to watch at Nico Nico Douga.  The commentator is 9-dan Tanigawa Koji.

I posted two entries about Human vs Machine Match in the next year

Today I posted two atricles in 81 squaire universe. Here are the link to them.

• The 81-Square Universe • View topic - Will the computer beat Yonenaga in Januarary 2012?
• The 81-Square Universe • View topic - 2nd DenOu-sen(Man vs Machine match)

Hamshogi(Hamster Shogi) is moving to a new site

Hamshogi(Hamster Shogi) is moving to a new site. It's already available to play on the new site. Please change your bookmark and/or link to Hamshogi to the following;

• http://hozo.vs.land.to/shogi.html

The current site will be availble to the end of October. After that, you can still play it.

How to use Hamshogi in English can be found here.

• Playing Ham Shogi

 

Japan Shogi Association released Shogi Live application for iPhone, iPod Touch & iPad

Yesterday I fhoud the following page. Japan Shogi Association released Shogi Live application for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad.

• Shogi Live for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

Another two articles I found about Akara vs Shimizu

I fhoud two more articles about the match betwen Akara and Shimizu.

• Short Sharp Science: Computer beats human at Japanese chess for first time

• Top female 'shogi' pro falls to computer | The Japan Times Online

The Mainichi Daily News covered the game between Akara vs Shimizu yesterday

Here is the link.

• Shogi computer beats female champ Shimizu

Akara beat Shimizu Ichiyo yesterday

Akara, which consists of four computer softwares such as GPS Shogi, Gekisashi, Bonanza and YSS beat Shimizu Ichiyo in 86 moves. Shimizu was Sente. The allotted thinking time per player is 3 hours + 60 secnd byoyomi. The game record is available to replay here.
http://wiki.optus.nu/shogi/index.php?cm ... &kid=72657

Here are some blogs in English about the event I found so far now.

• Computer beats a top human in Japanese chess@Improbable Research » Blog Archive

• Computer wins Shogi(Japanese Chess), against the woman master | Kirajapo.tv Blogs

And lots of photos of the event can be found in IPSJ's page linked below.

http://www.ipsj.or.jp/50anv/shogi/20101012.html

Shogi will come back as a mini-game of Yakuza4

In the thread called "Please welcome SEGA Producer Yas to the Yakuza forums! " of SEGA Forum, Yas confirmed that shogi will be in Yakuza4 to be released in Q1 2011. Shogi is cut in Yakuza3 at the moment though it's in Yakuza and Yakuza2.  Several ten-thousand Yakuza4 users will encounter shogi as a mini-game in it after its release.

• Please welcome SEGA Producer Yas to the Yakuza forums! - SEGA Forum

#1 (posted by RubyEclipse)

Hey everyone!

Today we have a special announcement that I think many of you guys will be stoked to hear. Our Senior Producer at SEGA of America for Yakuza 4, Yas, has officially joined the forums and will be around to discuss the game, talk about localization efforts, and more as we build up towards our big launch this spring.

There may be some questions Yas can't answer yet, but now we have a direct representative straight from our production team who can jump into discussions, correct wrong info, and maybe even answer some of those hardball questions you guys have. (Just be polite!)

A little history: Yas used to work at SEGA years ago and recently rejoined us to work on projects like Yakuza 4, among others. While he wasn't around for Y3, he's doing his best to make sure Y4's production as good as possible. He's fluent in Japanese and does the best actual yakuza impression I've ever heard - in San Francisco, anyway.

Let's give him a warm Yakuza-style welcome to the SEGA Boards!

#13 (Posted by Yas@Senior Producer, SEGA of America)

Hostess (kyaba-tsuku), shogi, mahjong and massage mini-games are in.

Let's Catch the Lion seems to become available for iPhotn/iPad

Let's Catch the Lion(Dobutsu Shogi) seems to become available for iPhone/iPlad.

• App Shopper: LET'S CATCH THE LION! (Games)