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The Shogi Freestyle Cup 2004 was held from July 17 to August 26. It was an international tournament using SC24 organized by Hiroyuki Iida((Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan) and Ingo Althofer (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany). The uniqeness of this tournament was that participants could be any combination of humans, programs, and computers. There were 4 entries.

Here are the result.

This entry is an index of twisting rook and other static rook for Reijer Grimbergen's "Professional games with comments". This index will help you find those games easily when you visit his excellent site. ISPS is gradually making the index by Opening Strategy for the professional games with comments so that shogi self-learners can easily reach the games with their favourite opening strategies.

* Twisting rook
* Other static rook

A Subsidy obtained, now for Realization of Dreams

Having obtained a subsidy from the Yokohama Association for International Communications and Exchanges, we have established a plan to be described below in detail. In Shanghai, Shogi has come to be popular a few years later than Beijing. However, it is reported that the level of Shogi in Shanghai is a bit higher than that in Beijing. As a matter of fact, in 2001, an elementary school boy came to sit for an entrance examination of the Professional Shogi Player Trainee System (Syorei Kai, in Japanese). (by Naohiro Sanada, chairman)

This entry is an index of Aigakari(Double Wing attack) for Reijer Grimbergen's "Professional games with comments" . This index will help you find the Aigakari games easily when you visit his excellent site. ISPS is gradually making the index by Opening Strategy for the professional games with comments so that shogi self-learners can easily reach the games with their favourite opening strategies.

*Black's Bogin(Climbing Silver)
*Black's Nakahara Style
*Koshikakegin(Reclining Silver)
*Others

A Subsidy obtained, now for Realization of Dreams

We have received favorable replies from 2 foundations mentioned in the “Kakehashi” No. 19, namely, The Yokohama Association for International Communications and Exchanges and The Scandinavia-Japan Sasakawa Foundation. Both of them have agreed to bear a part of the costs. (by Naohiro Sanada, Chairman)

This entry is an index of Sangenbisha(3rd file rook), Mukaibisha(opposing rook),Feint ranging rook, and double ranging rook for Reijer Grimbergen's "Professional games with comments" . This index will help you find those ranging rook games easily when you visit his excellent site. ISPS is gradually making the index by Opening Strategy for the professional games with comments so that shogi self-learners can easily reach the games with their favourite opening strategies.

*Sangenbisha(3rd file rook)
*Mukaibisha(opposing rook)
*Feint ranging rook
*Double ranging rook

In my column, “ISPS – Dreams and Projects” of No. 16 of the Kakahashi, I wrote about a dream of sending a Shogi trainer abroad. I think that this year should be the year for its realization. (by Naohiro Sanada, Chairman)

A Project to materialize a “Dream

When we held the First Goodwill Shogi Matches in July, no definite plans for the 2nd Matches were arranged. My idea at that time was that if the 1st Matches were held successfully, the next one in the following year would somehow come to be realized. Hence, I paid full attention to holding the 1st one and tried to hold it by all means. Happily, the 1st Matches turned out to be a big success. (by Naohiro Sanada, chairman)

A Dream to hold the 2nd Matches in Beijing

In July 31, our plan to periodically hold Shogi matches between school children of Tokyo and Beijing materialized as planned. It is indeed a pleasure that we are able to report it to you in this current issue. (By Naohiro Sanada, chaiman)