From: Manabu Terao <manabu.terao <at> mx3 <dot> ttcn <dot> ne <dot> jp>
Date: 25 jun 2007
Subject: Re: RE: P. 143 of "Shogi for Beginners"


Hello shogi fans,

I think it's time JSA to do so in their website. So ask JSA.

Regards
Manabu Terao

Aquinaswannabe <at> hotmail <dot> com wrote:

> 
> 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 <at> teambridge <dot> 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 <at> hotmail <dot> 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?


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