From: Larry Kaufman WIZARD NET> Date: 2 dec 1999 Subject: Re: Unusual Opening At 01:32 PM 12/2/99 +0900, you wrote: >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? > No. So sorry, I forgot to type "Bishop on 5c". Does this change your below comments? >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 > Larry Kaufman