Last update July 31, 2006

Technical Report #201

A Master-like Opening Strategy in Computer Shogi

J.Nagashima, T.Hashimoto and H. Iida

Abstract. Even masters are unable to play every opening line effortlessly which may be stored in the opening book. Each master has his preferred opening lines and attempts to lure his opponent to play into his hands. The same can be said about computer programs. In this paper, we demonstrate a method that tunes an opening book through self-playing games for the purpose mentioned above. We illustrate an application of the proposed method in the domain of computer shogi.

This paper was presented at the 8^th Joint Conference on Information Sciences, July 21-26, 2005, Salt Lake City, included in the Conference CD-ROM Proceedings. Its enlarged version was published from New Mathematics and Natural Computation, Vol.2 No.2 (2006).

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