From: Hiroki Kawada <kawada <at> MERL <dot> HITACHI <dot> CO <dot> JP>
Date: 3 dec 1995
Subject: No Subject

>>Thomas Majewski <dewabmaj <at> IBMMAIL <dot> COM> wrote:
>>What does the expression  < ikyoku no shogi > mean.

>Nobuyoshi Kinoshita wrote:
>I think "ikyoku" should be "igyoku".
>This means sitting king(the king staying on its initial position).
>
>Generally speaking, A sitting King is a sitting duck.


Or, Thomas may be asking about < ikkyoku no shogi >.  (One more 'k' may be
missing in the first word.)

< Ikkyoku no shogi > means situation in a game is ballanced and one cannot
determine which player takes advantage in the position.

One can say "This position is < ikkyoku no shogi >." during analysing a
postion not appeared in the finished game with his opponent player.  (It is
quite common among shogi players to start analysing the game right after
the game finished.)  He cannot see advantage on the either side in the
positon and maybe wishes to analyse the other postion.

Hiroki Kawada                     * "After the defeat
Mechanical Engineering Res. Lab., *   it is a valuable time."
Sec. 15, Hitachi, Ltd.,           * K. Yonenaga,
Kandatsu 502, Tsuchiura,          *  Shogi (Japanese chess) player
Ibaraki  300 Japan