From: Pieter Stouten EMBL BITNET> Date: 3 dec 1990 Subject: Question about promotion and Crane's Shogi. On Fri, 30 Nov 90 11:44:37 EST, Philip M. Tolbert DUVM bitnet> writes: >I just received Crane's Shogi for the Mac and I was playing >around with it for a while. I think I can really get into the game. > I really hopes that Crane's Shogi and Shogi-L will increase your appetite for Shogi. >Included with the software was the same set of rules that shogi-l sent to >me. My question is: When I take a piece, next to the piece will be a >little window that flashes Nari and Navana (spelling?) until I hit my >mouse button. This does not happen with the capture of every piece, >just certain ones at certain places. Can you please explain this to me? > The window that prompts you to ask whether to promote a piece or not, appears not necessarily when you capture. It appears when you made a move partially or completely in your opponent's camp (the last 3 rows from your point of view), because then you have the possibility to promote this piece. The rules file says the following about it: + +The three rows furthest away from a player are called the promotion zone. Apart +from the King and the Gold, any piece can be promoted to a more powerful piece +when it makes a move completely or partly in the promotion zone. So, when a +piece moves into, out of or fully inside the promotion zone it may be promoted +upon completion of its move. Promotion is optional, provided that the piece +still can make a legal move in case it is not promoted: + It is in this case that the little fashing window appears. And now for something completely different: the flashing window, which sometimes was accidentally hit when the wrong icon was showing, has been replaced by a more steady variant in Shogi 0.3a2, which I will be uploading soon. The English documentation for version 0.3a2 is not ready, yet and that is why I waited. But I guess that somebody experienced in playing against version 0.2 (with the docs) should have no problems figuring out how to play against version 0.3a2. Apart from some bug-fixes, version 0.3a2 plays also stronger and has a more pleasant and professional "feel". Cheers, Pieter Stouten embl bitnet>