... This community is relatively dormant these days and most messages seem to be spam... I hate acting like the captain of the Glee Club but let's try to be a...
I did post an answer, but it has not reached to the group? I copy back here The two players have to be online at the same time to begin a game, but after, once...
I was enthusiastic about a new Shogi Variants server. But now it's just a downer for me. The katakas site doesn't work on my PC. I get the "silverlight" error...
What is the exact error message? Are you working on Linux? R. ... From: Garrick Wells To: shogivar@yahoogroups.com Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2009 11:34 AM ...
A little bit. The bad thing is that you get an X (like a missing picture?), instead of a nice picture, inviting you properly to install Silverlight. Actually I...
Howdy, The time is drawing near that I'll have my Ko set completed and will hopefully be able to start playing. :) I've hopefully got games lined up with at...
[It seems that sended messages sometimes don't reach the list?] So it is now possible to invite a registred player who is not connected : Menu 'Action' >...
I am intrigued by the apparent lack of interest of Dai Shogi compared to the Chu Shogi. Particularly puzzling is the introduction of a serie of very weak...
... Roland> So I was wondering is there is definitely not a Roland> possibility that it existed a special rule : the weak Roland> pieces introduced in the Dai...
Colin Paul Adams
colin@...
Jun 2, 2009 12:56 pm
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... Although I still play Dai Shogi, what makes it less interesting to me is the lack of the Lion capture rules from Chu. ... I agree with you that the shogi...
Actually I was overall wondering if such an hypothesis was obviously absurd, unthinkable. After all, the dropped shogi and the Dai Shogi could have been...
I've seen it stated that every piece in Chu has a role to fill. Would somebody care to enlighten me on how the Lances and Reverse Chariots are useful, being...
... I find them useful in their unpromoted state for either ... a) rear support for step-movers advancing on the enemy territory, or b) clearing the way for...
... Unic> I've seen it stated that every piece in Chu has a role to Unic> fill. Would somebody care to enlighten me on how the Lances Unic> and Reverse...
Colin Paul Adams
colin@...
Jun 3, 2009 5:45 am
1674
By the way, what precisely makes the drops 'impossible' in Chu Shogi, and beyond? I had already started a correspondance game of dropped Chu, without noting...
... Chu -=> Lions Tenjiku -=> Fire Demons!, and Range Jumpers Dai Dai -=> Lion, Hook Mover, Long Nosed Goblin, etc Loosing pieces as strong as these and having...
... Even without drops, Fire Demons make the Tenjiku 'impossible' , in my opinion. ... your opponents army would certainly suck. 1. One could have believed...
... Roland> Even without drops, Fire Demons make the Tenjiku Roland> 'impossible' , in my opinion. Have you tried it with Edi's proposed rule change for the...
Colin Paul Adams
colin@...
Jun 4, 2009 9:11 am
1678
... For me it's the range jumpers. I see it as completely useless to have all the other pieces with which to build a defensive structure, just to have range...
... Roland> You are right of course, the main problem is to find a Roland> only one player. That is partly for that reason -besides Roland> the personal fun...
Colin Paul Adams
colin@...
Jun 4, 2009 3:01 pm
1680
... using their Lion to it's full potential. ;) I meant : in a dropped Chu, the game remains dense as all the pieces stay potentially on the board. ... thing,...
Re Middle Shogi with drops. Here is an extract from an article by Peter
Blommers published in "Variant Chess" Magazine - Volume 3, Issue 25 - Autumn 1997:- ...
... George> Middle Shogi, thought by George> many to be the finest variant of all, is such a wonderful George> game in all its aspects why does anyone ever...
Colin Paul Adams
colin@...
Jun 5, 2009 8:17 am
1683
... "Variant Chess" Magazine - Volume 3, Issue 25 - Autumn 1997:-... That is a clear answer. The merit is also to have tried it, to reach to a conclusion. ... ...
... I have still a library for a graphical board (platform independent), and a working plugin for most shogi variants on the generic gameserver. I have also...
Dear Phoenix, There is also a set of rules on this website under Files. They were posted by Gregory Sears and are somewhat different from the Wikpedia rules....
Howdy, ... Yeah, I'm having to figure out with each person which rules were going to play with. So far we've all been agreeing to the same ideas. ... I don't...
Greetings, I'm playing a handicap game of Chu with someone on Richard's PBMServ and have given them the 3 Lions handicap (after first having experimented with...
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