From: "mochamail.com" <ian_stanley <at> BIGFOOT <dot> COM>
Date: 21 dec 2002
Subject: Re: Longest Shogi game?

Tai Shogi with 352 pieces available in the game usually takes around a
thousand moves per player
which at a wuick rate of play/8 hours per day takes around a week per game

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From: "Randy Andrews" <whitetiger123 <at> JUNO <dot> COM>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: Longest Shogi game?


> Tim Krabbe has an interesting web page about chess records of various
> kinds.
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm
> The funniest one, is the draw claimed by 50 move rule on move 70!!
> 269 moves (538 shogi moves) is the longest chess game.
> In 1995, Piket defeated Lautier the Amber Blindfold tournament in
> 151 moves (302 shogi moves).  Both players played without sight of the
> board.
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