From: Pieter Stouten <stoutepf <at> CARBON <dot> DMPC <dot> COM>
Date: 1 may 1996
Subject: Re: hissishi ...?

The attached mail is forwarded on behalf of Frans Roquas <roquas.afrtnl <at> pi <dot> net>.

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At 05:55 21:02 96/05/01, KAMIMURA Hiroshi wrote:

>At 11:41 96.4.30 -0400, george (g.) jost wrote:
>
>>Does anybody know much about HISSISHI problems? I was looking
>>through some old issues of the now defunct? Shogi World magazine
>>and I learned about
>
>We are introducing basic SHOGI rule from the book "First Step to
>SHOGI" on URL http://www.harenet.or.jp/mugen/Shogi/index-e.html.
>We will add '4.3 Brinkmate' and '4.4 Brinkmate problems' some
>weeks later.
>(But there may be too easy for you.)
>
>Bye.
>
>Let the Dreams  Come True! $B!!
>(B___________________________________
>Mugen System Inc. KAMIMURA Hiroshi (Vital Kurashiki
>vice-president)
>E-mail mgn-kam <at> po <dot> harenet <dot> or <dot> jp URL
>http://www.harenet.or.jp/mugen/
>________________________________________ from Kurashiki,Japan

Concerning Hishi-problems,

I have two books about Hishi by the same author Tsukada 8 dan, I
can not read the publishers name I just have the ISBN I hope
that is sufficient ISBN4-471-13298-9 and ISBN4-471-13135-4  I
bought them in Japan a few years ago so I hope for the
interested it isn't out of print. One book is about creating
hishi and the other one is about escaping hishi or tsume-ro.
In the title one has 168....problems and the other one ha 186...
problems. So you can do an educated guess about the number of
problems.

The books cost me 1000 yen each including vat.

I will describe the first example each book gives, to give you
an impression, they are the easiest.

White kings position 2-2 black has in hand one gold one silver
and one knight that's it. Black to move you have to create
Hishi.

Black kings position 9-9, White kings position 2-1, White rook+
9-7, black tokin 2-3, white has a gold in hand, all the other
pieces are in blacks hand. you're black, you're in check please
escape.

Have fun with the problems!

Bye

Frans

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Name: frans roquas
E-mail: roquas
Date: 04/06/96
Time: 10:04:45

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