From: Pieter Stouten CARBON dmpc com> Date: 23 oct 1995 Subject: Re: Variants At 12:37 95/10/23, Nobuyoshi Fujimoto wrote: >And since the 400 years ago, only current SHOGI and chu shogi is alive. > Noteworthy is that Shogi originally seemed to have been played with the equivalent of Chu Shogi's "Drunk Elephant," which could promote to a "Crown Prince" (a king, for all practical purposes). At that time, most likely drops had not been invented yet. When they got introduced, the possibility of having two or even three kings would make Shogi very awkward, so the "Drunk Elephant"/"Crown Prince" combo was dropped (pun intended). >Does someone have an experience playing chu shogi >or any other old shogi variants? > I have played tori, chu and maka-dai-dai-old-rules (I think, it may also have been just plain old dai-dai ). Cheers, Pieter. -- ** Note that my e-mail address has changed once again. I hope it will not ** ** happen again soon. Please use stoutepf carbon dmpc com from now on. ** Pieter Stouten || Nothing shocks me; Computer Aided Drug Design Group || The DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical Company || I am a scientist! P.O. Box 80353, Wilmington, DE 19880-0353 || Phone: +1 (302) 695 3515 || -- Fax: +1 (302) 695 2813 || Internet: stoutepf carbon dmpc com || Indiana Jones