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...
I've uploaded a ZIP file containing "Koma no Mokuroku" which was compiled by Ivan A. Derzhanski in 2001(more than a year ago). It is in RTF and has diagrams of...
Can Jonathan Rutherford, who enquired about three-handed Shogi, please give me his correct e-mail address so that I may reply. The address on the header of...
George Hodges
george.hodges@...
May 28, 2004 6:07 am
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Greetings, For which shogi variants - in addition to Chu & Tenjiku - is it possible to find information/hints/anything about openings, strategy, tactics, etc,...
... game ... else? ... You can still (sort of) see David Courtney's site by entering the URL on archive.org. Unfortunately the graphics didn't get archived....
So... correct me if I misunderstand you, but your basic position runs like this: We know that there's something pretty fishy about the rules as presented in...
... reasoning. ... were ... textbook, ... the ... highly ... sole ... about ... (not ... as ... which ... the ... be ... ones. ... Your example of errors in a...
Alex Kraaijeveld has a webpage located at: http://www.cpb.bio.ic.ac.uk/staff/kraaijeveld/lexchess.html It has some interesting data about the general history...
There is a entry for Taikyoku Shogi located in the Wikipedia site in Japan: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A4%A7%E5%B1%80%E5%B0%86%E6%A3%8B A quick run...
Att Jonathan Rutherford e-mails to both your given addresses are bouncing back "unable to deliver" ?? If you will kindly e-mail me your full postal address I...
George Hodges
george.hodges@...
May 29, 2004 7:14 am
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Again, you've missed my point. If major errors can be made in a math textbook, where information can be verified as true or false, then how many more mistakes...
... I don't understand why there is an argument. I have not denied you the ability to create any rules which you desire. And I did not say that this document...
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