From: Manabu Terao <manabu.terao <at> mx3 <dot> ttcn <dot> ne <dot> jp>
Date: 13 may 2006
Subject: Re: Page 143 of SHOGI for Beginners

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Hello,

I don't think there is any player who follows the convention you stated
in the professional field.

In amateur and casually playing field, I think there are some. I don't=20
know how many.=20

Manabu Terao

Aquinaswannabe <at> hotmail <dot> com wrote:

> 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?
>=20
> Manabu Terao wrote:
> >=20
> > Hello,
> >=20
> > I had the book(fifth printing) and the phrase in qustion can be found=
=20
> > in page 143 of the chapter 16.
> >=20
> > The book was fisrt printed in 1984. I think he picked up a vulgar error=
s=20
> >=20
> > at that time.=20
> >=20
> > Manabu Terao
> >=20
> > > Feel free to change the title when you respond to this question too. =
 I=20
> > > wanted to address this to you because I want to address something you=
=20
> > > wrote earlier.
> > >=20
> > > 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 bi=
t=20
> > > of extra atmosphere perhaps, is that if a set has two types of king,=
=20
> > > Black takes the one marked :=1B$B!&%N=1B(B  and White the one marked=
=20
> > > =1B$B!"=1B(B=FD ."
> > >=20
> > > 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."
> > >=20
> > > What do you think?


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