From: "Jeroen J.-W. Tiggelman" HDETUD2 TUDELFT NL> Date: 28 may 1996 Subject: Annotations to LECTURE #1 Here are a few comments on Mr. Iwakura's lecture #1. I also intend to summarize the differences between the Japanese and Western notations concisely, but this will come later. > Initial Set Up of Playing Shogi > ------------------------------- > Please don't forget the following manners when you start playing Shogi with > your respectful opponent: > 2. When you will pick up the piece (KOMA), you have to pick up the > Gyoku (King) first. It has very strict rule that lower class person > should have Gyoku and upper class person takes Ou. We call them > both Koma as King.. But there are big difference. If the opponent > is the same class as you, you can choose one of both. To the Western beginner that is wondering how to tell the Gyoku and Ou apart: if you compare the two kings, you will see to the right of the uppermost symbol a spot that is black on one king and white on the other. This indicates which king belongs to black and which to white. :-) When writing a game score in Japanese notation, you must not worry about which king moves: Gyoku is written always. > JAPANESE SHOGI WORDS > -------------------- > 2. The words of Movement > RT Right (MIGI) --- The right-hand side piece moves. > LT Left (HIDARI) --- The left-hand side piece moves. > SD Side (YORU) --- The piece moves to the side (along a row) ST Straight (SUGU) --- The piece moves along a file > FW Forward (AGARU) --- The piece moves forward. > BW Backward (HIKU) --- The piece moves backward. There may be more than one way to describe the movement. For example, imagine you have two Golds at 42 (4b) and 52 (b). To indicate that the one on 52 moves to 53 (5c), you can call it either the RIGHT one or the one that moves STRAIGHT. However, if there is a third Gold at 62 (6b), you must use STRAIGHT. > Exception: When you can capture the opponent's Koma, we can say > Do-Fu, Do-Kyo, Do-Kaku etc. This concept is better formulated thus: when you capture the Koma your opponent just moved, you say Do-Fu, Do-Kyo, etc. You can read "Do" as "move to the same spot". Here is the example again, with western notation added: > Example : Sente Gote Black White > ----- ----- ----- ----- > 26 Fu 84 Fu 1. P-2f , P-8d > 25 Fu 85 Fu 2. P-2e , P-8e > 24 Fu Do-Fu 3. P-2d , Px2d > Do-Hi 86 Fu 4. Rx2d , P-8f > Do-Fu 87 Fu 5. Px8f , P'8g > 23 Fu 88 Fu naru 6. P'2c , Px8h+ > Do-Gin 35 Kaku 7. Sx8h , B'3e > 22 Fu naru Do-Gin 8. Px2b+ , Sx2b > 28 Hi 57 Kaku naru 9. R-2h , Bx5g+ > Toryo 10.resigns As for the introduction to lecture #2, these moves are repeated in the actual lecture #2, with Western notation added. :-) Jeroen Tiggelman crmbjti hdetud2 tudelft nl