From: Benjamin Good ANDREW CMU EDU> Date: 2 oct 1997 Subject: tai shogi Excerpts from mail: 2-Oct-97 Someone who speaks to Georg.. by George Jost CA NEWBRIDGE > I want to know: > > 1) How much it would cost to buy a Tai Shogi board from > him. Would this be plastic, wood, or card board. > > 2) How could I obtain his pamplet on Tai Shogi. > > 3) Who else has actually played this game and owns a board. > > 4) Is there a Tai Shogi world champion. This game requiring > more than 1000 moves must not have too many adherents. > > 5) Do the Japanese still play this game? > > 6) For myself I was just interested for kicks. I don't think I'd play > regularly, but I think it would be cool to own a set. Shogi on the other > hand provides pleasant recreation when you can find opponents. i don't have the address available right now, but i'm pretty sure it's available on roger hare's shogi page. if you write to him, he'll send you a catalog, if you send him the money for it, he'll send you the rules. i don't own any of his sets, i hear they're nice, but i can tell you that they're not cheap. i believe a tai shogi set including board is 300 US dollars. so i would suggest playing it before you buy a set. and this is just my opinion, but i did find tai to be tremendously fun, interesting, or good game. what did everybody else think? before i had ever played it, the subject came up on shogi-l, and a few people said they had started games, played for several hours, and never finished. i considered these people wusses, and i was sure that when i played tai shogi, i would be manly enough to finish. well, we played months and months ago, for about 4 hours, and we were about half finished. i wrote down the board position, and i still have it, but we have never bothered to set up and finish it. we have a lot of other games to play.