From: Marc <shogilist <at> SHOGI <dot> DE>
Date: 13 nov 2002
Subject: Re: A cultural difference?

Dear Martin,

I agree, but just for the point regarding the differences to chess my
opinion is another.
In chess, there has been a mainstream trend to decrease the playing time in
recent years. Maybe to try to make chess more compatible with commercial
exploitation.
Many of the good players, even me as a good amateur, criticise that with
passion.
If you think of a chess game as a work of art, its hard if you have
collected a little advantage through the middlegame and don't have the time
to play the endgame with the same strength. Even very little positional
advantage is decisive at a higher level, but except for technique and
proficiency it takes ...time... and thats the tribute you have to pay. In
pro's chess you are most of the time far away from mate and I don't think
of a race for pawn promotion.

best regards
Marc
www.shogi.de



DANERUD MARTIN schrieb:

>
> I agree completely with you. It is very difficult to play
> constructively with just a few seconds left in shogi. It is a little
> different in chess, since in the end of a chess game there is often
> either a race for pawn promotion or some way of forcing a mate or a
> draw. In shogi, you can often be in a middle game position close to
> sudden death, where both players are far from check mating. But of
> course, the reasonable idea is then that you are the better player if
> you used less time to reach that playable position.
>