From: Colin Paul Adams COLINA DEMON CO UK> Date: 19 dec 1999 Subject: In the vale of the White Horse (part I) The following Chu Shogi endgame position arose in a game played by myself against the computer, giving it 3 Lions and 2 pieces: (I give the board upside-down, as that is the way it looks to me on the screen) /1,+S,2,+vm,1,k,bt,2,dk,l/ 4,bt,3,g,2,rc/ 4,g,de,6/ 11,sm/ 2,+DH,GB,LN,4,p,p,1/ 11,p/ 9,fl,2/ 3,P,P,1,P,5/ +L,4,C,6/ 6,G,1,+ky,3/ 4,BT,G,DE,5/ 4,K,2,BT,4/ With White to move, the game then proceeded: 145. ..., GB 4h - 4i+ 160. +VM 5l - 7j So the first question is psychological - why did I allow the Flying Ox to skewer my White Horse through the Lion? (and no, the answer is not that I hadn't for-seen it) Since this involves seeing into my mind, you may well not get it (answer is in part 2), but I bet George Hodges does! -- Colin Paul Adams Preston Lancashire