{"id":16578,"date":"2012-01-15T22:10:36","date_gmt":"2012-01-15T13:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=16578"},"modified":"2012-01-15T22:10:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-15T13:10:36","slug":"the-first-top-pro-vs-computer-shogijapanese-chess-match-was-won-by-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/the-first-top-pro-vs-computer-shogijapanese-chess-match-was-won-by-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Top-Pro-vs-Computer Shogi(Japanese Chess) Match Was Won By Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe first top professional player vs computer Shogi(Wikipedia<\/a>) match Dennousen (Battle of Cyber-King) was held at Shogi Kaikan<\/a> (Japan Shogi Association building), Tokyo January 14, 2012.
\nKunio Yonenaga, an ex grand-master (in 1993) and a chairman of Japan Shogi Association, who retired in 2003, played against a computer program “Bonkura-s”. Although he is a retired pro, it is the first time computer defeats top-pro.
\nIn 2010, an women player belongs to the female-only pro-league lost a game against other computer program Akara 2010. The second Dennousen is being planned this year with 5 active pro players.
\nJapanese chess has the same origin as Chinese and Western chess, Chaturanga from India, and same as in computer chess in West, it has been popular research issue to make a strong computer program. In Western chess case, IBM Deep Blue first beat the world champion in 1996<\/a>. However, Shogi having the rule of reusing captured pieces makes much more complexity on computing and so far the strength of the top computer-shogi programs were thought as top amateur level.
\nJapanese Shogi Association holds over 100 pro players. Most major newspaper have and sponsor their own leagues, and has Shogi news every day. The Top player is said to earn about 1.3 million dollars in a year.
\nAppropriate to the computer match, one of the sponsors of this Dennousen title is Dwango, who runs Japan’s YouTube rival Nico Nico Douga. Nico Nico Live broadcast<\/a> [J] the whole game for 10 hours. According to Kunio Yonenaga’s Twitter<\/a>, over a million Nico Nico Douga users watched the game, and 341,000 of them were paid subscribers.<\/p>\n
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— \u7c73\u9577\u90a6\u96c4 (@yonenagakunio) January 15, 2012<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n