From: Pieter Stouten DUPONTMERCK COM> Date: 6 jan 1998 Subject: Maka-Dai-Dai Shogi rules (was: Shogi variants joke) On 98/01/05 at 23:37 -0500, Eric and Jackie wrote: >This brings up a very critical question-which rules are correct? Is the >G.F. Hodges phamphlet correct, or is there a newer site that has >[updated] rules? > The question which rules are correct can never be answered. Hodges's source was a history professor and as long as he does not come up with new evidence the present rules will be valid. >This would be quite disappointing to me if those >particular rules were no longer valid, since I've actually played thru a >couple of games, and I'd hate to have to re-learn it! > They may have been valid at some time in the past and then found not to work so well. My predicament is quite serious as well: I am Dutch maka-dai-dai (I think it was that) champion old-style (before Hodges updated the rules) and now find myself a champion of a game that no longer exists! Pieter Stouten dupontmerck com> DuPont Merck - Computer Aided Drug Design Group Web: http://www.halcyon.com/stouten/