From: Patrick Davin LYRA VEGA OR JP> Date: 27 jan 1999 Subject: Taikyoku Shogi Dear Luke and list members, I have posted some scans from a book "Sekai no Shogi", by Isao Umebayashi, which includes a set of rules for Taikyoku Shogi. I do not know when or how the rules were reconstructed. Follow the top link from Shogi Nexus: The initial setup is on the last page (page 236), in Japanese. Also, for any who noticed Shogi Nexus go horrendously out of date over the holidays, I'm now nearly back up to speed, at least on the pro news front... Have fun -Patrick Luke Merritt: >I'm beginning to think that this is a lost cause, but I am looking for >information on the 36x36 shogi variant "taikyoku shogi". I have been >provided with a partial set-up, but 92 types of pieces are unidentified >or only partially identified (I believe because the person providing >this couldn't read Japanese). I read somewhere that the rules, >presumably the moves of the new pieces, have never been found, but I >suppose that could change. > >Other than all the new pieces, I found it very interesting that you >start with two lions and do NOT begin with an emperor. > >Please contact me if you have more information...especially if you can >provide the complete setup in Japanese.