Shotest Shogi is a 2008 shogi AI engine, made by Jeff Rollason, which was made into a video game for Windows and Xbox Live Arcade developed by British studios AI Factory and Rubicon Development.

[1] It has competed in 12 World Championships, 2 Invitation ISF tournaments [2] (Tokyo) and 3 Olympiads, winning one of the latter.

[4][5] A game running Shotest was released on July 23, 2008, for Xbox Live Arcade in Japan.

Although the game is playable entirely in English, Chinese, Korean and EMEA languages, there is currently no announced release date for other territories, but this will be in the fall period.

Two PC versions are already on release, one in Japan and one in the UK (see "Shotest Shogi Official Website" below).