From: Rikard Nordgren <e7rikard <at> ETEK <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
Date: 27 jan 1999
Subject: Taikyoku Shogi

Apropos the largest shogi variant. I calculated an estimated number of
moves for this variant by making a quadratic regression on the average
number of moves for the smaller variants. A game of taikyoku shogi would
take about 10000 moves. If you could manage to make a move every two
minutes it would take a month (with ten hours a day) to complete the
game. Taikyoku IS the ultimate!

Rikard Nordgren