From: Colin Paul Adams <colin <at> COLINA <dot> DEMON <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 17 mar 1999
Subject: Tenjiku Shogi - a win for Black?

I don't know whether I've been hallucinating today, or just been blind
for the past 27 months, but the following 4-move sequence appears to
win for Black:

1. P - 8k, P - 8f
2. GGn - 3g, VGn - 6f
3. GGn x 7c, GGn x 7c
4. RGn x 7e+

followed by FiD 7n - 8k next move.

If White plays a different first move, so as to prevent GGn - 3g, then
GGn - 7k instead and the same method will suffice.
if 1. ..., HF - 4f 2. BGn x 4f does the trick.

So my proposal of a restricted first move (neither 1. P - 8k nor 1. P
- 9k be allowed) seems to be necessary to make the game playable.

Can anyone see any flaws in this (my board is packed away right now -
I worked this out at work this lunchtime, using Steve Evan's program)?
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Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire