From: Klaus Blumberg <I0060301 <at> DBSTU1 <dot> BITNET>
Date: 13 aug 1990
Subject: fairburn: how to play shogi

hello,
stimulated by the running tsume problem-competition I looked again at
the problem section of 'Fairbairn: How to play shogi' (Item 1 in the
booklist). I promptly discovered two mistakes. Here are they:
1) Tsume-problem 20:
B: +R2d, B1c, N3d    i.h.: G
W: K3b, G4b, S5b, L2a, P2c and P5c.
The last Pawn is the mistake: it HAS to be on 4c, otherwise there is
no solution, at least not the one given in the booklet.
2) Brinkmate (Hisshi)-Problem 25:
B: +R5a, S3e    i.h.: S
W: K3b, G4b, N2a, L1a, P1c, P2c, P3c, P4c
The proposed solution is 1)S'3a, White has to defend his Gold, and then
with the taken Gold u are supposed to get a mate. The mistake here:
if u defend the Gold by dropping a Silver on 4a, there is no mate as
the supposed starting field for mating (3a) is defended.
 
Klaus Blumberg
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