From: fabien.osmont teambridge ch Date: 25 jun 2007 Subject: RE: P. 143 of "Shogi for Beginners" This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 0030E50DC1257305_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Sorry, I haven't any such translation but according to Terao san: "Shogi Guidebook published by JSA in 2003 clearly explains which player should use Jade or King general." For me such sentence coming from the director of ISPS himself is enough official to be considered so. Aquinaswannabe hotmail com wrote on 25/06/2007 10:46:22: > > I hope this isn't too much to ask for, but can you give me a translation > of the relevant portion of the official rules? > > Also, if you give me a link to an English version of the official rules > online, I'd deeply appreciate it, as I've never been able to find an > English version of the official rules online (though I've found plenty > of rules.) It would be nice to have such a translation, so that many > questions may be avoided. > > > fabien.osmont teambridge ch wrote: > > Yes, I think he's wrong. > > > > A few monthes ago we had already a big discussion in the french forum > > with > > "beginners" about this point and we verified the information we had. > > So I can confirm now that the King is for the "theorically" stronger > > player, and the "Jade General" is for his "challenger". > > It is clearly written in the japanese official rules. > > > > Nevertheless, in the western amateur world, I've never seen people > > really > > taking care of this. > > > > Fabien > > > > Aquinaswannabe hotmail com wrote on 25/06/2007 04:15:36: > > > > > > > > On P. 143 of "Shogi for Beginners," John Fairbairn writes, "It is not > > > important but a convention that many players like ot follow, for a bit > > > of extra atmosphere perhaps, is that if a set has two types of king, > > > Black takes the one marked [Kanji character for 'jade'] and White take > > > marked [kanji character for 'king']." > > > > > > Is John Fairfairn wrong about this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.aCqKR7.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=TEXFOOTER --^---------------------------------------------------------------- --=_alternative 0030E50DC1257305_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
Sorry, I haven't any such translation but according to Terao san: "Shogi Guidebook published by JSA in 2003 clearly explains which player should use Jade or King general."
For me such sentence coming from the director of ISPS himself is enough official to be considered so.

Aquinaswannabe hotmail com wrote on 25/06/2007 10:46:22: > > I hope this isn't too much to ask for, but can you give me a translation > of the relevant portion of the official rules? > > Also, if you give me a link to an English version of the official rules > online, I'd deeply appreciate it, as I've never been able to find an > English version of the official rules online (though I've found plenty > of rules.) It would be nice to have such a translation, so that many > questions may be avoided. > > > fabien.osmont teambridge ch wrote: > > Yes, I think he's wrong. > > > > A few monthes ago we had already a big discussion in the french forum > > with > > "beginners" about this point and we verified the information we had. > > So I can confirm now that the King is for the "theorically" stronger > > player, and the "Jade General" is for his "challenger". > > It is clearly written in the japanese official rules. > > > > Nevertheless, in the western amateur world, I've never seen people > > really > > taking care of this. > > > > Fabien > > > > Aquinaswannabe hotmail com wrote on 25/06/2007 04:15:36: > > > > > > > > On P. 143 of "Shogi for Beginners," John Fairbairn writes, "It is not > > > important but a convention that many players like ot follow, for a bit > > > of extra atmosphere perhaps, is that if a set has two types of king, > > > Black takes the one marked [Kanji character for 'jade'] and White take > > > marked [kanji character for 'king']." > > > > > > Is John Fairfairn wrong about this? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --=_alternative 0030E50DC1257305_=--