From: Aquinaswannabe <at> hotmail <dot> com
Date: 15 jun 2007
Subject: RE: Question about "leaving your king in check (one more)


Also, I want to clarify: did those four books that you've checked say=20
that "leaving one's king in check" is illegal?


manabu.terao <at> mx3 <dot> ttcn <dot> ne <dot> jp wrote:
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> Hello shogi fans,
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> Here are my findings.
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> I checked the following four books for complete novices.
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>   "Yoku Wakaru Shogi" by Yasuo Harada,=20
>        fist edition =3D 1970, Tokyoshoten
>   "Shogi Nyumon Izen" by Akiko Takojima,=20
>         first edition=3DJanuary 1977, JSA
>   "Hayawakari Shogi Nandemo Nyumon" by Yasuo Harada and Chuko Tanabe,=20
> first edition=3DJanuary 1983, Shogakukan=20
>   "Etoki Shogi Nyumon" by Kenji Iino,=20
>        first edition =3D January 1983, Ikeda Shoten
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> They do not mention to the move of leaving your king in check although=
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> it's considered illegal. Every book says checkmating opponent's King=20
> ends a shogi game with victory. No book says that taking opponent's king=
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> closes a game.
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> Best regards
> Manabu Terao
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> manabu.terao <at> mx3 <dot> ttcn <dot> ne <dot> jp wrote:
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> > I'm ordering a library near my residence to lend me several shogi books=
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> > for novices published before the first edition of Shogi for=20
> > beginners(1984) to check the situation in Japan. I will come back in a=
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> > few days later.
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> > Manabu Terao
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> > Bernhard C. M=E4rz wrote:
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> > > I've checked my "introduction book" from Shogi Deutschland e.V. (2nd=
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> > > print) and I'm shocked, that there is also written the wrong rule (th=
ere=20
> > >=20
> > >=20
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> > > is EXPLICIT written, that you can move your king into check!!!).
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> > > How can this happen?
> > > Maybe this rule is something new and earlier it didn't exist???
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> > > Bernhard


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