From: WENDELL MARTIN <wendell.martin <at> THE-MATRIX <dot> COM>
Date: 7 oct 1995
Subject: Re: King in check

For what it's worth, ASCII's Kakinoki Shogi program for the 3DO won't allow
a human player to move his king into check (it's illegal).  Also, when a
human player finds himself with no possible moves, the program doesn't react
(the player just can't move anything), but if the computerized player is in
stalemate, the program announces that the computerized player has lost.

_Shogi: Japan's Game of Strategy_ doesn't seem to address stalemate, but
it is stated in _Chess Variations_ that stalemate is illegal in Shogi.

It's an extremely rare situation, but it would be nice to know the "right"
way to handle it.

       Wendell
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