Differences between shogi and western chess from a computational point of view

Matsubara, H. and Grimbergen, R. (1997)

Proceedings: Board Games in Academia, an interdisciplinary approach, Leiden, The Netherlands

Abstract

In this paper the differences between Shogi (Japanese Chess) and western Chess are discussed from a computational point of view. Shogi and chess are very similar but a game-tree complexity of shogi is far larger than that of chess. We think shogi is an interesting game for game research as chess.