From: Steve Evans <trout <at> NETSPACE <dot> NET <dot> AU>
Date: 20 feb 1997
Subject: Re: tai shogi pieces

The blind monkey moves to any adjacent square except directly forwards
or backwards.

The sideways chariot moves as a rook or diagonally backwards.

The coiled serpent moves to the adjacent square directly forward or to
any of the 3 adjacent squares backwards. ie: like an upside-down Copper
General.

Ben, I notice that you were also recently asking about the rules and
piece moves of Dai Dai Shogi. The rules of this Shogi variant and all
other major historic variants can be found in the on-line help of my
Shogi Variant program at http://netspace.net.au/~trout/index.html.


Steve.

>From: Benjamin Good <bg18+ <at> ANDREW <dot> CMU <dot> EDU>
>Date: 14 feb 1997
>Subject: tai shogi pieces

>recently roger hare put up the address of the chess variants page that
>contains the rules for tai shogi.  unfortunately, this page contains
>many errors, including the omission of the moves of 3 of the pieces.  i
>wrote to the email address at the bottom of the page, but he said he'd
>have to get back to me (he wasn't the one who actually wrote it).

>can anyone tell me how the following pieces move?

>blind monkey, sideways chariot, coiled serpent.

>thanks,
>ben