From: Steve Evans <trout <at> NETSPACE <dot> NET <dot> AU>
Date: 31 aug 2000
Subject: Re: Tsui Shogi = Chu Shogi ?

Nick Bardsley wrote:

> Michael,
>
> Answers:
>
> 1. Tsui Shogi is, indeed, Chu
> 2. Murray mistakenly believed the game was played with drops. I believe at
> some point Murray or Gollon (can't remember which) played the game with
> drops and discovered that it made no sense (most of the pieces simply don't
> come into play).
>

As Nick says, they are indeed the same game.

Gollon's error seems to have come directly from HJR Murray's fabulous but
slightly flawed (in respect of Chu anyway), A History of Chess. There is
actually a sample game of Chu played with drops in Gollon's book.  But John
Gollon corrected the mistake concerning "drops" in the preface to the 2nd
(1974) edition.

Cheers,

Steve

>
> >
> > Dear Shogi-L,
> >
> >     In Chapter 23 of Gollon's book, citing Murray as his
> > source, Gollon
> > describes a variant of "Japanese great chess" he calls Tsui Shogi and
> > translates as "Intermediate Shogi."  It sounds similar to Chu  Shogi in
> that
> > it is played on a 12 x 12 board and the piece array is quite similar to
> Chu
> > and the English name is a near-synonym for "Middle Shogi." But it differs
> in
> > name, and that the piece array is slightly different, and (most
> importantly)
> > that the game is played with drops!  Can anyone tell me if Tsui Shogi and
> Chu
> > Shogi are really one and the same game and if Gollon's description of the
> > game is basically accurate?  Thanks.
> >
> > ~Michael