From: Larry Kaufman <lkaufman <at> COMCAST <dot> NET>
Date: 3 may 2002
Subject: Re: Question

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Stanley" <ian_stanley <at> BIGFOOT <dot> COM>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Friday, May 03, 2002 12:54 PM
Subject: Re: Question
> Japanese :
>
> Shobute
>
>
>  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

      I think this translation is unsuitable for shogi, particularly the
reference to "invasion"..  Although I don't really know the word, perhaps in
shogi it is used to mean "sacrifice" in the chess sense, which may or may
not be sound.  Japanese speakers, please comment.

     Larry Kaufman