From: Hugo Hollanders MERIT UNIMAAS NL> Date: 12 apr 2000 Subject: Re: Illegal moves That this 'nasty habit' is indeed an illegal move was explained by Peter Blommers in the last issue of the Dutch Shogi magazine '81'. This 'knowledge' is based upon direct contact with the Nihon Shogi Renmei. So you can rest assured that this 'move' is illegal. However, it is recommended that players who do this are given a warning the first time, and will only lose the game if they repeat this 'move'. Hugo Hollanders Sam Sloan wrote: >> However, some players (when capturing the opponent's bishop with >> their own bishop) have the habit of taking their own bishop (rather >> than their opponent's) off the board and adding it to their pieces in >> hand, followed immediately by turning their opponent's bishop around >> and putting it back as their own. Although the end result is the same >> (a bishop capturing a bishop), the procedure is not legal as I found >> out a while after that (sorry, Terje, you were right!). >> >Although Pieter Stouten says that this is illegal, I think he is wrong. I >think this is perfectly legal. >I believe that I have seen professional players doing this on televised >games. I am very surprised that he claims that this is illegal. >On what authority does he say this?