From: arose323 aol com Date: 23 aug 2004 Subject: Re: Kanji-Less Shogi --part1_76.3ff29513.2e5bc5f5_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Stories from the Civil Rights Movement. Extraordinary stories,=20 ordinary people. Share your memories today! http://click.topica.com/= caacvgla2i6YsbnuqMaa/AARP ------------------------------------------------------------------- Adam, Somewhere I thought I remembered hearing a shogi proverb, "If you have mate= =20 with a pawn drop, you have a legal mate as well." Or something to that effe= ct.=20 Maybe I'm dreaming? I find when I'm looking at tsumeshogi, hisshi, or over the board in a game,= =20 the I tend to look at NON-promotion options for knights, lances and especia= lly=20 silvers first, before promoting them. Sal >=20 > >Also I wonder whether ShoGi players wish that they did not have to > >promote their silver generals but rather had the option of not promoting= > >them. They can sneak backward more easily than the gold generals. >=20 > You don't have to promote anything, except pawns and lances that reach > the back rank or knights that reach the last two ranks. Not promoting > silvers, knights and lances is clearly useful from time to time. Not > promoting bishops, rooks and pawns turns up a lot in tsume-shogi but > very very rarely if ever in real life: it's conceivably necessary > becaause of the "can't mate by dropping a pawn" rule. >=20 > --=20 > Adam Atkinson (ghira mistral co uk) >=20 Ang "But there never seems to be enough time to do the things you want to do on= ce=20 you find them..." Jim Croce, Time in a Bottle Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor a child today through Children International.=20=20 Give a desperately poor child hope for a brighter future. For only $18 a month you can make a difference! http://click.topica.com/= caacvgoa2i6YsbnuqMaf/ChildrenInternational ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= bnuqMa.= c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=3DTEXFOOTER --^---------------------------------------------------------------- --part1_76.3ff29513.2e5bc5f5_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable = 
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Adam,

Somewhere I thought I remembered hearing a shogi proverb, "If you have mate= with a pawn drop, you have a legal mate as well." Or something to that eff= ect. Maybe I'm dreaming?

I find when I'm looking at tsumeshogi, hisshi, or over the board in a game,= the I tend to look at NON-promotion options for knights, lances and especi= ally silvers first, before promoting them.

Sal


>Also I wonder whether ShoGi players wish that they did not have to
>promote their silver generals but rather had the option of not promotin= g
>them. They can sneak backward more easily than the gold generals.

You don't have to promote anything, except pawns and lances that reach
the back rank or knights that reach the last two ranks. Not promoting
silvers, knights and lances is clearly useful from time to time. Not
promoting bishops, rooks and pawns turns up a lot in tsume-shogi but
very very rarely if ever in real life: it's conceivably necessary
becaause of the "can't mate by dropping a pawn" rule.

--
Adam Atkinson (ghira mistral co uk)



Ang
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