From: Benjamin Good <bg18+ <at> ANDREW <dot> CMU <dot> EDU>
Date: 27 jan 1999
Subject: big shogi

Excerpts from mail: 27-Jan-99 Taikyoku Shogi by Rikard Nordgren <at> ETEK <dot> CHA
>
> 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!

whooo hoo, who wants to play with me by email?  round robin taikyoku
shogi tournament?

actually, i would be quite appreciate if somebody could hack thru all
the rules to this game and put up a webpage with clear and concise rules
in english (or email me the rules in clear and concise english and i'll
put up the webpage).  i'm not always sure what i'm looking at in these
diagrams, and i know no japanese except chushogi pieces and numbers.


thanks,
ben