What I Gained from Interacting with Shogi AI: The Path to 1st Place in Floodgate and My Approach to Distilled Models
Dev.to AI
•
AI Research
Introduction As a practical testing ground for verifying reasoning optimization and model handling, I first touched an OSS shogi software in January 2026. As a result, I reached rank 1 by playing over 200 games with a rating exceeding 4500 on Floodgate (an online shogi server for computer shogi). Since I started programming in December 2025, this was achieved in approximately two months after touching the OSS...