From: Michael Vanier BBB CALTECH EDU> Date: 27 jan 1999 Subject: Re: 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 > Yes, taikyoku shogi gives a new meaning to the song "What are you doing for the rest of your life?" :-) It's good to have a game for those of us who found tai shogi too limiting ;-) Many thanks to Patrick Davin for posting the excerpts, which are fascinating. Hopefully someone will be inspired to invent an even larger variant... 100x100 anyone? Mike