Congrats to takodori! First human ever to break the 2000 barrier for Shogi!

At least I hope so. He might be a Japanese master of the game, who knows.

I would not be surprised if he is a master. He seems to be much stronger than everyone else. I seem to be a decent shogi player, but when I play takodori, he makes me feel like a complete patzer. I am fairly confident that his rating will only continue to go up from 2000.

Don't know much about shogi, but some Japanese computer go authors are also computer shogi authors, specially Hiroshi Yamashita. I have heard them say computer shogi is at the moment 50-50 between the top bots and the top humans. Somewhat like chess 15 years ago. So unless you can tell if you are playing a bot from its style, there is no way to tell the difference between the best human player and the average cheater.

ok, but just because he beats everyone at LG does not make him a master, neither a cheater. After all, someone on LG is bound to be the best human player, and it could as well be him.

We do not really have a feel yet for how good anyone on LG is in Shogi (well, I don't). If we are all beginners - within the blind, the one-eyed is king?

Of course. I am not pointing at anyone. Just saying that shogi is just like chess a game in which cheating is easy (turn based).