From: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRiNLXBsoQg==?= RD TKSC NASDA GO JP> Date: 16 apr 1996 Subject: Re: Checkmate rule >Let me enter the discussion and confuse the issue a little more, since it is >my feeling that this rule is one of the strangest in Shogi and is also making >the rules for the game inconsistent. If I remember correctly, even Habu has >some doubts about the reasons for having this rule in Shogi (I think I read >it in one of the many interviews he gave recently). If my memory is correct.. Habu said like this " If mate with a pawn drop does not inhibited move in Shogi, Sente(black) will have clear advantage against gote(white) " Of course the answer for the original issue is, that pawn drop is illegal move. On the contraly, if the position is as follows, the paun drop is not illeagal because white can eat the paun by G before be chackmated. 9 8 7 6 a wK wS bR -- b -- wG -- -- c bG -- -- -- Black: P d -- bN -- -- >play at all. Why then this rule? Any Japanese historians with the answer? I have no answer for this question. MMM ??? (^_^)"" Only I can say that this rule makes Tumeshogi problem much more interesting. $BF#K\?.5A (B (Nobuyoshi Fujimoto) $B1'Ch3+H/;v6HCD!!1'Ch rd tksc nasda go jp> (tel:0298-52-2772 $B!K (B (fax:0298-50-2233)