From: Kerry Handscomb SPRINT CA> Date: 14 may 2000 Subject: Rook handicap Hi Larry, I'm interested in the alternative rook handicap strategy. Do you have it in a format you could easily post to the list? Thanks, Kerry Noteworthy were Marc's games at rook. Playing standard strategy, he had lost four times previously against pros and lost his first two games here too. Then, I showed him a game that George Hodges had sent me, in which black forces an early bishop exchange and won easily against Nakahara Meijin in his prime. Marc then switched to this strategy and won both times! It seems that these lines are better practical choices than the traditional josekis. Larry Kaufman, amateur 5 Dan