From: Reijer Grimbergen yz yamagata-u ac jp> Date: 15 jan 2007 Subject: RE: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 1176, December 6th 2006) You are right. Even though this was not explained in Shukan Shogi, this is not obvious and an additional explanation should have been given. I have used the comments in Shogi Sekai and the Ryu-O website for the following addition: "The problem. There is no good defense against the threat P3e Px3e B*5f. Fo= r example, according to Fujii (9-dan), 18.G3b is unplayable, because the combination of G3b and S3c is too heavy. The white plan is to play R2b followed by S4d and with the gold on 3b this is no longer possible, condemning white to a waiting game. 18.G7b also defends, but then black can= play the climbing silver attack S3f-S2e, and white will not have time to move into a proper castle before the black attack starts (S6b-K6a-K7a-K8b takes four moves, while the black king is already safe). Sato decides to allow the promotion of the bishop as the best of all evils, but Watanabe ca= n build a very strong position after that." I hope this clears it up a little. Personally, I would still have played G3b, but I guess that is why I am not Ryu-O or Kisei ;-).=20 I have also added this to the comments on my website. Thanks for the comment, Reijer --------------------------------------------------- Reijer Grimbergen Department of Informatics, Yamagata University Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, 992-8510 Japan Tel: +81-(0)238-26-3740=A0 FAX: +81-(0)238-26-3299 http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/ ---------------------------------------------------=20 ________________________________________ From: jfpinto voila fr [mailto:jfpinto voila fr]=20 Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 5:18 AM To: shogi topica com Subject: Re: This week in Shukan Shogi (no. 1176, December 6th 2006) Hello, Maybe I am wrong, but I don't understand the 18th=A0move: > 18.K5a-6b=20 Why not simply G4a-3b now (or start an Edo by G6a-7b?) Why :"There is no good defense against the threat P3e Px3e B*5f."? Thank you. J.F. =A0 --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= aBsjvI.= 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 --^----------------------------------------------------------------