From: SalvaAC <at> AOL <dot> COM
Date: 9 feb 1999
Subject: Re: Chess and shogi

In a message dated 2/8/99 1:13:41 PM Central Standard Time, BenFB <at> AOL <dot> COM
writes:

<<
 Also, I don't know how you would categorize it, but chess has one thing shogi
 does not: endgames.  Well, I mean... shogi has endgames, which are generally
 violent attacks (white/black to move and win...).  But chess has these
 beautiful endgames involved fewer pieces and elegant concepts.  That "chess-
 style" endgame is missing from shogi, and that is a pity.
  >>

Hi,

I don't know...  I'm not a strong chess player by any stretch of the
imagination, but the general feel of if you're up a piece, just keep
enchanging till you have a won endgame - I don't like feel as well.  Of course
there are some beautiful chess endgames.

I think what makes shogi endgames more interesting to me is that they are much
more direction-oriented....  meaning that because the pieces don't move
backwards as well as forwards, as they do in chess (pawns notwithstanding),
one has to be more careful in shogi?  How many of us have made errors in our
shogi mating net that have allowed the king to escape up the board?  I haven't
seen that type of error be nearly so critical in chess.

I enjoy both games and am better at shogi only because I play it far more.
And I've heard on this list recently that each game can help the other, and I
do believe that to be the case.

Tony Salvaggione