From: Bruce Lindsey <balindsey <at> yahoo <dot> com>
Date: 6 aug 2005
Subject: Re: Non-standard handicap question

--- Gergely Buglyo <gbuglyo <at> hotmail <dot> com> wrote:

> According to Koji Tanigawa's book "Taikyokukan ga
> Shoubu wo Kimeru", a lance 
> is worth 5 points, while a silver is worth 8, and a
> bishop 13 points. So an 
> alternating bishop-left lance handicap would mean 9
> points on average, 
> slightly more than a silver handicap. (I have never
> seen anyone give a 
> silver handicap, though.)

Thanks.  There was an article on the Silver Handicap
in George Hodge's magazine back in the 1980s.  Larry
Kaufman also mentions it in the introduction to his
articles on handicap play.


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