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Greg Strong wrote on Thu, Oct 21, 2004 03:02 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
<p>Yes, this extensive collection of applets is truly remarkable! The large number of games Ed has been able to support is a clear indication that the underlying Java code is very clever and well-designed. I can say from experience that this is <i>not</i> an easy endeavour...</p> <p>Also, Peter asked about Dai and Chu shogi support. Those games have very large boards (and lots of extra pieces) and the CPU usage goes up exponentially with the number of legal moves. These applets search to a shallow depth, even on 8x8 games, so as to be light-weight. It is probably not possible to make a low-memory usage, low-CPU usage applet to play any game with a really large board. However, there is a nice freeware program by Steve Evans that plays several Shogi variants, including the two you request (although I don't know how strong an opponent it is.) It can be found here: <a href='http://trout.customer.netspace.net.au/index.html'>http://trout.customer.netspace.net.au/index.html</a></p>

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