Born in the Netherlands, Reijer is probably the most well-known western face in Computer Shogi, having entered no less than 9 of the last World Championships in Tokyo. He is also a formidable Shogi player, becoming the European Champion in 1986 and again in 1990. He has presented and published many papers in Computer Shogi, and is currently engaged in a number of AI projects, also through his students. (See http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/index.html). He will be competing in the coming 10th Computer Olympiad in Taipei in Taiwan, with both a Shogi program and an Amazons program. http://www.cs.unimaas.nl/olympiad2005/main.html