From: Benjamin Good ANDREW CMU EDU> Date: 31 jan 1999 Subject: Re: shogi rules Excerpts from mail: 31-Jan-99 Re: shogi rules by Michael Vanier BBB CALTE > I think this is a bit unfair; George regularly publishes supplements to the > Middle Shogi manual including whatever errata he (or anyone else) finds in > the manual. Also I strongly suspect that the amount of money he makes off > of Middle Shogi is pretty miniscule. > i didn't say he was necessarily a biased source, i said he was not necessarily an unbiased source, there's a difference. in just about every discussion of shogi variant rules i've seen (which admittedly mostly comes from the shogi-l), there is some talk about ambiguity or unknowns in the historical documents that give us the rules. yet in the hodge rules manuals i own, which includes chu, dai, and tenjiku, he makes no mention that there may be some unknowns in the rules as he states them. i have several pages of errata for the chu shogi manual also, but they are all corrections of typoes, not corrections in the rules as a result of new discoveries in the documents. ben