From: Pieter Stouten <Pieter.Stouten <at> EMBL <dot> BITNET>
Date: 9 oct 1991
Subject: the whole-minutes rule ...  (forwarded mail)

>From: atkinson <at> vaxrom <dot> decnet <dot> cern <dot> ch
 
On the subject of the whole-minutes rule ...
I had been thinking "Maybe the rule still holds when you have 0 time on
your clock, because as long as you move in 59 seconds or less, you have used
no time so everything is ok", but now that I know that byoyomi takes over then,
that is fine.
(I don't wish to contribute to misinformation by printing nonsense in Italian -
sadly, a magazine that talked to me at Giocare e Vivere this summer has just
published a LONG article on Shogi which is absolutely FULL of crass mistakes.
And I gave them a cardboard set with the rules. How they managed it I don't
know - they say the lance can jump over any number of pieces, state the
promotion rule in a totally incomprehensible way, say the Bishop gains the
ability to go one space diagonally when it promotes and all sorts of other
things. Sigh. I have "had words" with the editor, who says he will publish
a correction next issue...)