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The Shogi Freestyle Cup 2004 was held from July 17 to August 26. It was an international tournament using SC24 organized by Hiroyuki Iida((Shizuoka University, Shizuoka, Japan) and Ingo Althofer (Friedrich-Schiller University, Jena, Germany). The uniqeness of this tournament was that participants could be any combination of humans, programs, and computers. There were 4 entries.

Here are the result.

According to the Swedish Shogi Federation, the Swedish Shogi Team Championship 2004 was held on July 31 and August 1 in Norrkoping, Sweden. Six teams with 28 Swedish players got together. The team Goteborg 1 obtained Gold prize. For more details, please see the Shogi-l archives.