From: Michael Vanier <mvanier <at> BBB <dot> CALTECH <dot> EDU>
Date: 14 feb 1999
Subject: No Subject

I was just re-reading Larry Kaufman's interesting comparison's of chess
and shogi games when I noticed this:

> From: Larry Kaufman <lkaufman <at> WIZARD <dot> NET>
>
>      In my opinion the key points to consider in comparing the games are
> [...] variety of play (a major objection to checkers and
> some might say to Go), [etc.]

Even though this is off-topic for a shogi list, I find it very surprising
that anyone could claim that Go lacks variety of play.  Both strategically
and tactically the variety is astounding.  I can certainly sympathize with
the view that chess/shogi tactics are in general more fun than Go tactics
(since I lean to this view myself) but the variety is certainly there.
Maybe we should start a "go vs. shogi" discussion :-)

Mike