From: George Hodges <george.hodges <at> talk21 <dot> com>
Date: 7 aug 2005
Subject: Re: Non-standard handicap question

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Silver handicap was dealt with in my SHOGI magazine in a two-part article=
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Issues Nos. 63 and 64 dated September and Novermber 1986. The magazines are=
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still available from me.

George Hodges

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From: "Bruce Lindsey" <balindsey <at> yahoo <dot> com>
To: <shogi <at> topica <dot> com>
Sent: Sunday, August 07, 2005 12:16 AM
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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