Chessvariants.com will soon be hosting a multivariant Chess variant tournament with the web-based PBM system, Game Courier. The deadline for signing up is...
Hi everybody, I am writing a new open source Shogi Variants Program. It is largely based on Steve Evans Shogivar Program, but it will have more features. It...
... Great! ... Actually, also the Japanese shogi programs do it the chess-like way, but that doesn't mean your program has to do it as well. The Chu Shogi...
The reason some Shogi programs use the checkmate condition is probably because the coder built it on a pre-existing Chess program like Sargon. One of the...
Hello, I should make clear that the current program will not contain an engine. It will have all the rules for all the variants, for validating any moves (So...
Is anyone working on a detalied graphic description of piece movement for Ko Shogi? Just from the text description, it is difficult to figure out some of the...
... but that ... programs I'm ... I decided to do it the chess-way (with checkmate) for the simple variants, like most other shogi-programs do, and by...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the shogivar group. File : /taikyoku.swf ...
shogivar@yahoogroups....
Mar 15, 2004 4:36 pm
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... They did. In Sho-Shogi, its precedessor, there were no drops and a drunken elephant which got eliminated because of the drops (too easy to get an extra ...
... You can play Shogi against other online opponents with Game Courier, which is at http://play.chessvariants.com/pbm/ Game Courier lets you play a multitude...
... Courier, which ... online. ... you your ... There is also a gameroom for Shogi at Yahoo! games: http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=shg But there's...
In another discussion group there came up the topic about making the board and pieces for games which are often either difficult or impossible to obtain. The...
If you're not concerned about the wedge shape of the piece, I've found that using wooden discs (available in bulk from wood-supply stores) make for nice,...
Leaving aside for now the troubling fact that the Fire Demon and Water Buffalo have identical moves... In newsgroup discussions (from about 5 years ago) I...
Before the sixteenth century, there were many forms of Shogi. According to tradition, Emperor Go-Nara began a purge and standardized the game based on Little...
On the website www.chessvariants.com, there is a game invented by me called Rutherford's 1-dimensional Shogi. I have not received many comments on it,...
I have a number of questions about notation that perhaps some of you can answer, especially if you've seen some of the old and original documents concerning...
... me ... hear ... A very interesting game. It seems quite playable. I've worked up a rough little ZRF for it. And I'm still play- testing. I figured a...
Greetings, I've searching for information about Tori and Wa Shogi - openings, tactics, strategy, proverbs, hints, whatnot - and I found links but ... the ... ...
... I recognise the quote above, since I wrote it (in the article http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/orientchess.html for the MSO Worldwide website...
Looking through Colin Adams' Tenjiku book, I found the following description of the Fire Demon move: "Fire Demon (two steps back and forth, ranges to the left...
... move ... surprised ... As stated in a previous posting, you are making the assumption that all Shogi variants either evolved or devolved from each other....
... right ... furthermore ... adjacent ... Water ... be ... step ... The "Shogi ... that "our" ... side. ... Tenjiku ... step ... of 2 ... stands). ... it ... ...
I agree that the moves of the pieces in Tai Kyoku Shogi ought to be "standard", that is, pieces of the same name must surely have the same move as in all other...
George Hodges
george.hodges@...
May 27, 2004 5:24 am
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mr hodges i am growing in my interest of shogi. i truly enjoy learning about the many variants. i cannot find on the internet any information on the three...
The Taikyoku translation was done directly from the scans which are located in the Files section. There was no attempt to 'guess' at the correctness of these...
You're missing my point here. If we know that certain pieces are just plain wrong (as for instance the Phoenix, or Soaring Eagle, or Horned Falcon, or any of...
... or ... extreme ... solution. ... conditions, ... us ... the ... Once again, I ask what other source for the rules of Taikyoku are you citing? I agree that...
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