From: Nick Bardsley <nbardsley <at> ICC <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 12 apr 2000
Subject: Re: Stalemate

See below....

> >Would a professional move into check? No. So why have a rule about it?
> >Would a professional stay in check? No. So why have a rule about it?
> >Would a professional make an illegal move? No. So why have a rule about
it?
> >
> >Your position is absurd.
> >
>
> You seem to know very little about shogi.

*yawn* Less certainly than somebody with your profound degree of erudition.

But to return your ad hominem serve I would remark that you are evidently
blissfully ignorant of the technique known as 'irony'.

Further, I at least, am open to persuasion and will admit when I am wrong.
As I have been shown to be wrong in these discussions...not by you however,
I need hardly add.

>
> At least once a year a professional player does make an
> illegal move in an
> official game and is forfeited as a result.
>
> These games are recorded and are published in the Shogi Yearbook.
>
> Sam Sloan

Precisely my point. There *is* a rule because it *is* necessary.
We have now been told that stalemates do occur and that there is a rule to
cover it.
Not a rule I like, but one I accept.

I rest.

Nick Bardsley