From: Chris Sterritt <chris <at> ADMS-RAD <dot> UNISYS <dot> COM>
Date: 10 jul 1990
Subject: Re:  The bizarre 1982 Meijin title match. Finally a Jishogi in

Hi,
 
	Pieter, thanks for the interesting discussion of the (recent?)
title match.  I found the list of games and results fascinating,
in particular that:
 
>The final result being: Kato 4 - Nakahara 3 -  Jishogi 1. Another
>curious aspect of this match was that black did not lose a single game.
 
Is this really unusual?  How so?  I believe that in western chess, white
wins something like 51% of games, a very slight advantage to going first.
(Anyone care to correct this statistic?)  What is the figure for Shogi?
 
	thanks,
	chris sterritt