Shokidoki wins UEC Cup!

[JoshPettus]

Congratulations! In your writeup, GA-Sho!!!!!!'s punctuated name makes you sound very enthusiastic about your results.

"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind" - Terry Pratchett

Wonder what he would say about six...

Congrats again on the win Harm!

[hgm]

I actually abbreviated the name. In the official result page on the UEC website it has nine...

[Daniel Shawul]

Congrats HG!
And Ferd too, it is a very close top-4!

[TonyJH]

Congrats H.G.!

[hgm]

Congrats HG!
And Ferd too, it is a very close top-4!

We missed Nebiyu!

And Sjaak II. Funny enough Sjaak II is the most efficient engine in exposing Shokidoki's holes in the opening book. Perhaps it randomizes more.

[MikeB]

Finally my mini-Shogi engine Shokidoki managed to win the UEC Cup, which was played this Sunday in Tokyo. It was a close finish: after a 9-round round robin Shokidoki tied with GA-Sho!!!!! for 1st/2nd place with 8 wins/1 loss, while Ferdinand Mosca's program Lima tied with the former long-term champion 1/128 Rigan for 3rd/4th place with 7 wins/2 losses. So playoffs were necessary. In these play-offs Shokidoki beat GA-Sho!!!!! (for the second time, as this was also GA's only loss in the round robin). While 1/128 Rigan beat Lima (although in the round robin it had lost to it and GA, while it had beaten Shokidoki). So the final result was

1) Shokidoki
2) GA-Sho
3) 1/128 Rigan
4) Lima

Tony Hecker's program TJshogi5x5 finished 5th, losing against the top four but beating all others.

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Cross table:

                  S G R L T S K T T B
1.   Shokidoki    # 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  8
2.   GA-Sho!!!!!! 0 # 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1  8
3.   1/128 Rigan  1 0 # 0 1 1 1 1 1 1  7
4.   Lima         0 0 1 # 1 1 1 1 1 1  7
5.   TJshogi5x5   0 0 0 0 # 1 1 1 1 1  5
6/7. Sleeping     0 0 0 0 0 # 0 1 1 1  3
6/7. Komachan     0 0 0 0 0 1 # 1 0 1  3
8.   Triple Crown 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 # 1 1  2
9/10.Tokin-Chan   0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 # 0  1
9/10.Broaden55    0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 #  1

Congrats!

[Dann Corbit]

Congratulations on an impressive victory

[hgm]

It seems GA-Sho!!!!!! is also known from regular (9x9) Shogi. I found it in the results of the upper-division contest from this years Computer Shogi Association world championship, under the name Gasyou!!!!!. In this division the strongest 24 programs compete, and GA-Sho!!!!! scored 4 points out of 9 rounds of Swiss there, which made it end #17 in the ranking:
http://www.computer-shogi.org/wcsc25/index_e.html .

[hgm]

After deciphering a lot of Japanese, I found out that GA-Sho actually has its own web page, and that the number of exclamation points in the name is actually a way to indicate the version number. Which makes the one that participated in the UEC Cup version 9.

And version 8 at least is a USI engine that is available for free download. But this probably does not play mini-Shogi yet.

If version 9 is released as USI engine, I might be permitted to incorporate it into the WinBoard mini-Shogi package. Although the download is uncomfortably big: the GA-Sho evaluation requires a file with evaluation parameters of 30MB!

[Giorgio Medeot]

Congratulations H.G.!

cheers