From: "Manabu, Terao" <mt_shogi <at> LYCOS <dot> NE <dot> JP>
Date: 2 dec 1999
Subject: Re: Unusual Opening

Larry Kaufman wrote;
>     He says that a certain Japanese opponent playing static rook meets his
>ranging rook with the following setup (assume ranging rook is sente): Pawns
>on 3d, 4d, 5d, 6d, 7d, and 8e, King on 5b, Golds on 4b and 6b, Silvers on
>4c and 6c, knights on 3c and 7c, Rook on 8a.  The rook may then be
>transferred to 2a to support P-2d-2e-2f.  The Japanese player claims this
>is a new fad in Japan, though I myself have never seen it (though a similar
>strategy is known for handicap games of two piece and up).  He asks whether
>anyone knows anything about this strategy, for example name, history,
>whether it is played by pros, and how it should be combatted.
>     Does anyone out there know anything about this?

Are Bishops exchanged or not?

The pro who takes a similar strategy which called "Kazaguruma"(windmill) is
Hatasu Itoh, but I do not now how we call the abovementioned formation.

If Bishop are not exchanged, the one must be on 1c. I like to respond it with
the following formation;

  Pawns on 9f, 8g, 7f, 6f, 5f, 4f, 3f, 2f, 1f,
  Rook on 7h
  Bishop on 5i
  King on 2h
  Silvers on 6g, 2g
  Golds 4g, 3h
  kNights and Lances to stay as original setting

Manabu Terao


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