From: Pieter Stouten <STOUTEN <at> EMBL <dot> BITNET>
Date: 1 jun 1990
Subject: Questions about rules / Suggestion for new E-mail board (part 1)

>From:   IN%"oluf <at> ifi <dot> uio <dot> no"  "Asle Olufsen"  1-JUN-1990 16:55:20.01
To:     STOUTEN <at> EMBL <dot> bitnet
CC:
Subj:   RE: Concept Shogi rules -- please check for clarity.
 
Received: from NORUNIT.BITNET by EMBL.bitnet; Fri, 1 Jun 90 16:54 +0100
Received: from NORUNIT (SMTP) by NORUNIT.BITNET (Mailer R2.07) with BSMTP id
 9632; Fri, 01 Jun 90 14:29:45 EDT
Received: from runix.runit.sintef.no by NORUNIT.sintef.no (IBM VM SMTP
 R1.2.2MX) with TCP; Fri, 01 Jun 90 14:29:41 EDT
Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no.ARPA) by runix.runit.sintef.no
 (norunix.EARN) (1.2/8.8);  id AA18588;  Fri, 1 Jun 90 14:24:31 +0200
Received: from uranosi.uio.no by ifi.uio.no with SMTP id <AAifi05514>; Fri, 1
 Jun 1990 14:29:17 +0200
Received: by uranosi.uio.no ; Fri, 1 Jun 1990 14:29:09 +0200
Date: Fri, 1 Jun 1990 14:29:03 MET DST
>From: Asle Olufsen <oluf <at> ifi <dot> uio <dot> no>
Subject: RE: Concept Shogi rules -- please check for clarity.
To: STOUTEN <at> EMBL <dot> bitnet
Message-id: <CMM.0.88.644243343.oluf <at> uranosi <dot> uio <dot> no>
X-Delivery-Notice:  SMTP MAIL FROM does not correspond to sender.
In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 30 May 90 11:46:00 +0100
Organization: University of Oslo, Norway.
X-Envelope-to: STOUTEN
 
>CAPTURING AND DROPPING PIECES
>-----------------------------
>
>  3) There may be no more than one Pawn per vertical row for each player.
 
I would say: There may be no more than one UNPROMOTED pawn per file
for each player.
 
I have also read:
   4) There may be no more than one unpromoted lance per file for each
player.
 
> NOTATION
> --------
 
I have seen that you put a '=' at the end if you can promote but does
not (e.g S7d=).
 
> INITIAL SETUP
> -------------
>
> The representation of the board with the initial setup (which has become
> the de facto standard in electronic correspondence Shogi) is given below.
> The w and b in front of the abbreviations indicate white and black
> respectively. Captured pieces are kept in the boxes at the right side of
> the board.
 
What about promoted pices ?
 
>
>    9    8    7    6    5    4    3    2    1
> +--------------------------------------------+       White in hand:
> ] wL ] wN ] wS ] wG ] wK ] wG ] wS ] wN ] wL ]  a   +------------------+
> +--------------------------------------------+      ]                  ]
> ]    ] wR ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ] wB ]    ]  b   ]                  ]
> +--------------------------------------------+      +------------------+
> ] wP ] wP ] wP ] wP ] wP ] wP ] wP ] wP ] wP ]  c
> +--------------------------------------------
> ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]  d
> +--------------------------------------------+
> ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]  e
> +--------------------------------------------+
> ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ]  f
> +--------------------------------------------+
> ] bP ] bP ] bP ] bP ] bP ] bP ] bP ] bP ] bP ]  g
> +--------------------------------------------+      Black in hand:
> ]    ] bB ]    ]    ]    ]    ]    ] bR ]    ]  h   +------------------+
> +--------------------------------------------+      ]                  ]
> ] bL ] bN ] bS ] bG ] bK ] bG ] bS ] bN ] bL ]  i   ]                  ]
> +--------------------------------------------+      +------------------+
>
 
Before I discovered this list I created the following board which I
feel is more "clean".
 
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| \l/ | \n/ | \s/ | \g/ | \K/ | \g/ | \s/ | \n/ | \l/ |  a
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|     | \r/ |     |     |     |     |     | \b/ |     |  b
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| \p/ | \p/ | \p/ | \p/ | \p/ | \p/ | \p/ | \p/ | \p/ |  c
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |  d
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |  e
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |  f
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| /p\ | /p\ | /p\ | /p\ | /p\ | /p\ | /p\ | /p\ | /p\ |  g
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
|     | /b\ |     |     |     |     |     | /r\ |     |  h
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
| /l\ | /n\ | /s\ | /g\ | /K\ | /g\ | /s\ | /n\ | /l\ |  i
+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+-----+
 
  9     8      7     6     5     4     3     2     1
 
When the pices gets promoted I use a capital letter.
 
> Pieter Stouten, 30 May 1990.
 
 
Oluf                             Email: oluf <at> ifi <dot> uio <dot> no