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**Shiga**,
a [[Chinese Chess]] program by [[Shi-Jim Yen]] and [[Ming-Cheng Cheng]], so far the most successful program participating at [[ICGA]] [[Computer Olympiad|Computer Olympiads]], winning 5 times the gold medal, and 6 times silver. In the 2004 [[ICGA Journal#27_1]] introduction //Computer Chinese Chess//, Shiga was characterized as knowledge-based program written in [[Basic#VB|Visual Basic]] reaching 10 to 11 [[Ply|ply]] in a minute <ref>[[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Tai-Ning Yang]], [[Shun-Chin Hsu]] (**2004**). //[[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220174553_Computer_Chinese_Chess|Computer Chinese Chess]]//. [[ICGA Journal#27_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1]], [[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/223d/ef59c884503f18610bba314034157f55aacd.pdf|pdf]]</ref> In 2011, Shiga was already designed to run on multiple processors to search more than 20 plies of a [[Type B Strategy|type-B]] kind of search <ref>[[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Tsan-Cheng Su]], [[I-Chen Wu]] (**2011**). //Shiga wins Chinese Chess Tournament//. [[ICGA Journal#34_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2]]</ref> along with a fine-tuned pattern-matching system.

=Authors= 
<ref>[[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=115|Shiga's ICGA Tournaments]]</ref>
* [[Shi-Jim Yen]]
* [[Ming-Cheng Cheng]]

=Shiga's ICGA Tournaments= 
||~ Edition ||~ Version ||~ Ranking ||~ Participants ||
|| [[6th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|6th Computer Olympiad, Maastricht 2001]] || SG 8.2 ||> 2 ||> 3 ||
|| [[7th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|7th Computer Olympiad, Maastricht 2002]] || Shiga 8.1 ||> 2 ||> 4 ||
|| [[8th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|8th Computer Olympiad, Graz 2003]] || Lock ||> 5 ||> 5 ||
|| [[10th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|10th Computer Olympiad, Taipei 2005]] ||   ||> 2 ||> 14 ||
|| [[11th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|11th Computer Olympiad, Turin 2006]] ||   ||> 2 ||> 5 ||
|| [[12th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|12th Computer Olympiad, Amsterdam 2007]] ||   ||> 2 ||> 5 ||
|| [[13th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|13th Computer Olympiad, Beijing 2008]] ||   ||> 11 ||> 18 ||
|| [[15th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|15th Computer Olympiad, Kanazawa 2010]] ||   ||> 1 ||> 5 ||
|| [[16th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|16th Computer Olympiad, Tilburg 2011]] ||   ||> 1 ||> 3 ||
|| [[17th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|17th Computer Olympiad, Yokohama 2013]] ||   ||> 1 ||> 4 ||
|| [[18th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|18th Computer Olympiad, Leiden 2015]] ||   ||> 1 ||> 6 ||
|| [[19th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|19th Computer Olympiad, Leiden 2016]] ||   ||> 1 ||> 4 ||
|| [[20th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess|20th Computer Olympiad, Leiden 2017]] ||   ||> 2 ||> 5 ||

=Selected Publications= 
* [[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Tai-Ning Yang]], [[Shun-Chin Hsu]] (**2004**). //[[https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220174553_Computer_Chinese_Chess|Computer Chinese Chess]]//. [[ICGA Journal#27_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 27, No. 1]], [[https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/223d/ef59c884503f18610bba314034157f55aacd.pdf|pdf]]
* [[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Tsan-Cheng Su]], [[I-Chen Wu]] (**2011**). //Shiga wins Chinese Chess Tournament//. [[ICGA Journal#34_2|ICGA Journal, Vol. 34, No. 2]] » [[15th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess]]
* [[Ming-Cheng Cheng]], [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Tsan-Cheng Su]], [[Shi-Jim Yen]] (**2012**). //Shiga wins Chinese Chess Tournament//. [[ICGA Journal#35_1|ICGA Journal, Vol. 35, No. 1]] » [[16th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess]]
* [[Jr-Chang Chen]], [[Shi-Jim Yen]], [[Tsan-Cheng Su]] (**2013**). //SHIGA Wins Chinese Chess Tournament//. [[ICGA Journal#36_3|ICGA Journal, Vol. 36, No. 3]] » [[17th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess]]
* [[Pascal Tang]] (**2015**). //SHIGA wins Chinese Chess Tournament//. [[ICGA Journal#38_4|ICGA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 4]] » [[18th Computer Olympiad#ChineseChess]]

=Forum Posts=
* [[http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=60670&start=1|Re: Hi Mr Muller, any news for the 2016 Chinese Chess Olympiad]] by [[Harm Geert Muller]], [[CCC]], July 02, 2016

=External Links= 
* [[http://www.game-ai-forum.org/icga-tournaments/program.php?id=115|Shiga's ICGA Tournaments]]

=References= 
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