Gekisashi and Tanase Shogi beat top amas in the exhibition match after the 18th World Computer Shogi Championship tournament on May 5.
Gekisashi beat Toru Shimizugami in 100 moves. Tanase Shogi beat Yukio Kato in 75 moves. Here is the links to the related articles with board diagrams, photos and videos in the blog of the tournament in Japanese.
Exhibition match 1(Yukio Kato vs Tanase Shogi) | Tanase Shogi's Victory
Exhibition match 2(Gekisashi vs Toru Shimizugami) | Gekisashi's Victory
I think seeking for sponsors of the match between a professional player and computer program will be necessary soon. The Japan Shogi Association has banned their professional players to play against computers without guarantee since 2005. The match between Bonanza vs Ryuo Watanabe last year was sponsored by Daiwa Securities.
The top 8 standings of 18th WCSC tournament which was held from May 3 through 5 are as below;
1 - Gekisashi
2 - Tanase Shogi
3 - Bonanza
4 - YSS
5 - Bingo Shogi
6 - Ohtsuki Shogi
7 - Nara Shogi
8 - Kakiki Shogi
Dear sir
its very nice to see a japanese has a blog on shogi in english.I suggest you add LINKS to other useful english shogi sites & links of all japanese homepages of softwares,its a torture to find gekisashi computer world champion site link in google! i cant find yet.thanks in advance.
Posted by: jafarjavad | February 22, 2009 at 01:39 AM
> jafarjavad
Thanks for your suggestion. Please visit "Shogi Links" at http://www.junichi-takada.jp/shogi_link_e.html
I don't think it's necessary for me to make the link collection by myself since such a good links already exist.
Posted by: takodori | February 22, 2009 at 03:51 PM
What does it mean the JSA banned Pros from playing computers without a guarantee? It is not clear what is being guaranteed. Thank you.
Posted by: Mark Schreiber | August 11, 2009 at 07:05 AM
> Mark Schreiber,
It means they are not allowed to play with computer software without receiving performing fee.
Posted by: takodori | August 11, 2009 at 09:07 AM
Why do you think that there are so few computer versus human games played this year?
Posted by: Mark Schreiber | August 18, 2009 at 05:31 AM
> Mark,
I can't answer why since I did not think such a thing, did I?
Posted by: takodori | August 19, 2009 at 10:32 AM
You are right you did not say it. Did you say it would soon be time for a pro to play a computer because of the exhibition wins in the 15-minute games at the 18th WCSC tournament? Do you think a computer should beat an amateur at a 2-hour game before a computer plays a pro?
Posted by: Mark Schreiber | August 19, 2009 at 08:55 PM