From: Rikard Nordgren <e7rikard <at> ETEK <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
Date: 28 jan 1999
Subject: Re: Taikyoku Shogi

> 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

Let's suppose we create the largest playable variant for a normal
lifetime.
This would only be 180x180 or something and it will take some 60 years
to finish a game.
By the way... how would one notate a game of taikyoku? The alphabet only
has 26 letters. The board is 36 squares...

Rikard