From: Aquinaswannabe <at> hotmail <dot> com
Date: 13 may 2006
Subject: RE: Page 143 of SHOGI for Bebinners

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However, are there many players, in the professional field, amateur=20
field, and casually playing field, who follow the convention that the=20
Black player uses the Jade General, even though this might be a vulgar=20
error?

Manabu Terao wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I had the book(fifth printing) and the phrase in qustion can be found=20
> in page 143 of the chapter 16.
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> The book was fisrt printed in 1984. I think he picked up a vulgar errors=
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> at that time.=20
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> Manabu Terao
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> > Feel free to change the title when you respond to this question too.  I=
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> > wanted to address this to you because I want to address something you=
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> > wrote earlier.
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> > I read this in John Fairbairn's "Shogi for Beginners": "It is not=20
> > important but a convention that many players like to follow, for a bit=
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> > of extra atmosphere perhaps, is that if a set has two types of king,=
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> > Black takes the one marked :=1B$B!&%N=1B(B  and White the one marked=
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> > =1B$B!"=1B(B=FD ."
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> > This seems to disagree with what you said earlier: "It does not have=
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> > anything to do with whether Sente or Gote."
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> > What do you think?
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