Professional shogi player beats computer program

Professional shogi player beats computer program

OSAKA, Japan - Masayuki Toyoshima, a professional player of shogi, or Japanese chess, plays against the computer program "YSS" in Osaka on March 29, 2014, with an industrial robotic arm moving the shogi pieces based on instructions from the program. Toyoshima scored the first win by a pro shogi player in the third of five matches in this year's human- versus-computer series.

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