pichy wrote:PS: I was able to install Spear which is pretty simple for me to do, even if I was only using Winboard for the first time.hgm wrote:Well, considering your performance so far, it seems SPEAR is the last thing you need. Better first try to beat Lesserkai, and then Shokidoki... And if you want the strongest engine, I would not recommend SPEAR either.
I followed your suggestion to first play versus the weaker opponent Lesserkai which took me 23 games using the same opening until I figured out how to beat it. Here is my 23th game versus a very weak Shogi program which I think in term of standard chess it plays like a 1200 rated player. Finally I got my first win.
[Event "Computer Chess Game"]
[Site "Pichy-PC"]
[Date "2012.05.02"]
[Round ""]
[White "Pichy"]
[Black "Lesserkai (USI2WB)"]
[Result "1-0"]
[TimeControl "40/1200"]
[Variant "shogi"]
1. h4 Gg8 2. h5 Ge8 3. Kd2 Kf8 4. h6 hxh6 5. Rxh6 a6 6. P@h7 a5 7. Sf2 i6
8. hxh8+ Sxh8 9. Sc2 Ra8 10. Gfe2 Sc8 11. g4 i5 12. Ng3 Kg9 13. g5 Sh7 14.
Rh4 Kh8 15. i4 P@h5 16. Rxh5 P@h6 17. Rh4 ixi4 18. Lxi4 P@i5 19. Lxi5 Lxi5
20. P@i4 L@h5 21. Nxh5 hxh5 22. Rc4 N@b6 23. Rg4 Lxi4 24. Rxi4 Sh6 25. g6
gxg6 26. B@i9 Kh7 27. Bd4+ P@i5 28. Ri1 Ng7 29. Rg1 h4 30. +Be4 h3+ 31. b4
Sg5 32. Rxg5 Ki7 33. +Bxg6 Gh7 34. +Bxg7 Gxg7 35. Rxg7+ P@h7 36. G@h6 Ki8
37. S@i7 Ki9 38. Sh8+#
{Xboard adjudication: Checkmate} 1-0
That pretty much illustrates the problem of those not prepared to install their own engines, making them fully dependent on pre-packaged pre-installed bundles. The best will always remain unavailably for them, both in terms of engine and terms of GUI...
Here is my first game versus Spear using the ShogidokoroGUI. I resigned knowing that I was not prepared yet to beat Spear, but I will play versus shokidoki at least 80 games until I draw.
[Sente "SpearCSA2009v1.5"]
[Gote "Pichy"]
[SFEN "lnsgkgsnl/1r5b1/ppppppppp/9/9/9/PPPPPPPPP/1B5R1/LNSGKGSNL b - 1"]
1.P7g-7f (00:01 / 00:00:01)
2.P8c-8d (00:07 / 00:00:07)
3.P6g-6f (00:01 / 00:00:02)
4.K5a-4b (00:07 / 00:00:14)
5.P2g-2f (00:05 / 00:00:07)
6.G6a-5b (00:01 / 00:00:15)
7.P2f-2e (00:06 / 00:00:13)
8.S3a-3b (00:02 / 00:00:17)
9.S7i-6h (00:06 / 00:00:19)
10.S7a-6b (00:02 / 00:00:19)
11.S6h-6g (00:06 / 00:00:25)
12.Resigns (00:54 / 00:01:13)
I finally managed to draw versus Spear
1[Sente "Pichy"]
[Gote "SpearCSA2009v1.5"]
[SFEN "lnsgkgsnl/1r5b1/ppppppppp/9/9/9/PPPPPPPPP/1B5R1/LNSGKGSNL b - 1"]
1.K5i-6h 2.K5a-6b 3.K6h-5i 4.K6b-5a 5.K5i-6h 6.K5a-6b
7.K6h-5i 8.K6b-5a 9.K5i-6h 10.K5a-6b 11.K6h-5i 12.K6b-5a
13.Sennichite
I wish all the top Chess programs were full of bugs like this Shogi Program, if Spear wants to by repeating moves I am more than happy tp repeat my moves too