The 81-Square Universe

*The game is to start at 10:00am on January 14, 2012(JST). The venue shall be at the special playing room of Tokyo Shogi Kaikan (in the JSA building). The allotted thinking time per player is three hours. The thinking time per move spent less than 60 seconds shall not be counted. (If a player make a move by after thinking for three minutes and fifty-nine seconds, only three minutes will be counted as time consumption. A player will make a move within fifty seconds per move if he consumes as much thinking time as two hours and fifty nine minutes.)

*Lunch break will be one hour long between 1:00pm and 2:00pm(JST). Bankras may not turn off the power during the break.

*The moves of Bankras will be replayed on the board by a human player on behalf of itself. Time consumption for Bankras will be measured by computer and that for Yonenaga will be taken by a human record-keeper.

*There will be no limitation for Bankras's setting except for 4KW power consumption at maximum which is required by the venue of the fourth floor of Tokyo Shogi Kaikan. If Bankras would like to use more, it is to be fulfilled in remote operation without overusing the power consumption limit of the venue.

*If Bankras happens to stop during the game, the human developers may fix it. The time for fixing will be counted as Bankras's time consumption.

*Human operation which is to be allowed to be done with Bankras during the game will be limited only to inputs of Yonega's moves and to the fixing operation if it happens to stop for some reason.

*If any trouble happens which is not caused by Bankras, restoration will be done with time off.

*In case that any contingency happens, the players shall accord with the discretion of the official watchman.

Let me make a correction. In this case, the games are not considered rated ones so no points will change.

According to JSA, a preliminary match between Yonenaga and Bonkras will be hold at SC24 at 7:00pm(JST) on December 21. The time condition is most probably 30 seconds per move for the game. You can watch it by logging in there. And 9-dan Tanigawa Koji's live commentary (in Japanese) about it will be available to watch at Nico Nico Live.

The rules for the game to be played on January 14 has been announced at Nico Nico Douga in Japanese. Here is my translation of them.