From: Matt Casters <matt <at> INNET <dot> BE>
Date: 15 jul 1998
Subject: Re: Help!  Furibisha vs. edge attack?

In my limited experience, it might not be a bad idea to put a silver on
the position where your king is in the mino.  More like the way the
boat-castle is played in double ranging rook.
Your formation would be like Gold-Gold-King-Silver.
You'dd have to watch your oponent and see what he does.  If he start
building good shape with all these attacking pieces on your castle, I
think it's a bad idea to just build a mino.   If he starts attacking
on the other side of the board, then why not build a (high-) mino.

HTH,

Matt

SalvaAC <at> AOL <dot> COM wrote:
>
> Hi.
>
> I played a couple games of shogi yesterday (Hi George!).  I have been playing
> furibisha quite often lately (sankenbisha in this question) and I have had
> numbing attacks against my mino castle after my opponent gets his bishop to 4d
> and uses that plus his lance and silver to strike at 1g, trading pawns on the
> 1 file first.
>
> With George's permission (or maybe without it...  <g>) the next time we get
> together we can record a game with this opening for the list's analysis.  My
> question is, is this a sound way to break down the mino, from the edge?  If it
> is, how is this best defensed?  If it isn't, how can it be punished?  And will
> George Marino ever play against me again now?  :)
>
> Tony