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Yoshiharu Habu, 31 y.o., is the Shogi Champion. Shogi is widely played in
Japan, a country in which there are around 10 million people who have
played the game, and there are at least a few houndred thousands of
regular players, but surprisingly, Western Chess is not well known in
Japan, and the number of Chess players is ridiculous, making perhaps Japan
the country with the lower relation: W/Chess players vs. population. Mr.
Habu said the following, about Computer programs: '... In normal games,
the computer is still far from the professional level. Its level can be
compared, in the best of cases, to a 4-dan among amateurs [approximately
2300 strength in chess Elo terms. The first dan among professionals starts
after the amateur 6-dan. To get a rough idea, the best Shogi players in the
world, including Mr Habu, have a ranking of professional 9-dan.'.
It seems that Shogi, for a while, is a bit more difficult to be dominated
by a cyber-player. Time will tell.