From: Reijer Grimbergen ETL GO JP> Date: 16 apr 1996 Subject: Re: Checkmate rule =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCRiNLXBsoQg==?= RD TKSC NASDA go jp> writes: >> 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) " Oh yeah, that was it. This time it was a memory error on my part and not a language error (that's a change ;-) ). Habu's comments have nothing to do with the issue here. > Of course the answer for the original issue is, that pawn drop is illegal move. You are right to go back to the original question. Still, I like to be persistent and ask again: if in Shogi there is no mate (only taking of the king), how can there be a rule that says that mate with a pawn drop is illegal? Reijer -- Reijer Grimbergen Electrotechnical Laboratory Palcious Tsukuba 302 1-1-4 Umezono 1-24-8 Ninomiya Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki-ken 305 JAPAN 305 JAPAN E-mail: grimberg etl go jp Tel: 0298-59-1606 WWW: http://www.etl.go.jp:8080/etl/suiron/~grimberg Tel: +81-(0)298-54-5080 extension: 67431 Fax: +81-(0)298-58-5918