From: Benjamin Good ANDREW CMU EDU> Date: 22 oct 1996 Subject: tenjiku shogi questions hi all, today i receieved my instructions on how to play dai and tenjiku shogi from gf hodges, and i have two questions that i'm hoping someone might be able to answer for me. question 1: can a piece still do the "igui" move if it is pinned between the players own king and an attacking piece? i'm guessing this is not likely to occur in actual play, but i thought i'd ask. question 2: the diagram for the honju, the free eagle, does not make sense to me. it has arrows extending in all 8 directions from the piece, indicating that it can move indefinitely in these directions. it also has x's in the squares 2 away in the orthogonal directions, indicating that it can jump to these squares in the event that there is an interposing piece. but these are also circles (meaning that the piece can step to these squares) in the squares 1 and 2 away in the diagonally directions. but these squares are already covered by the arrows in those directions, so aren't necessary. and it's not the same as the fire demon, the lion hawk, or the vice general, where they are necessary to indicated that these pieces can also reach these squares by an alternate route. there's no other mention of the free eagle in the instructions. so is the this just an unnecessary redundancy by gf hodges or is there more to the free eagle? can someone please clarify for me? thanks, ben