From: Ian Stanley BIGFOOT COM> Date: 3 may 2002 Subject: Re: Question On Friday 03 May 2002 16:14, you wrote: > Dear Shogi fans > I am translating this game on Russian and can not understand what is > "shobute". > Is it English word which I don't know or it is Japanese term. > If it is Japanese can you explain what it means ? > Best Regards Alexander Nosovsky > http://nosovsky.narod.ru > Japanese : Shobute š š After the opening, when a player judges that straightforward continuations are insufficient to win, she may make a shobute, a play (te) that puts the game (shobu) in balance. Shobute are typically invasions. Shobute usually involve some risk, but they are not necessarily overplays. I don't speak the language but i got the definition from the Sensei's library at http://senseis.xmp.net/ the page is for GO but as most of the terms used in both GO and SHOGI are decriptive reguarding ideas [eg SENTE and GOTE] then the translation should be accurate