From: Aquinaswannabe <at> hotmail <dot> com
Date: 25 jun 2007
Subject: RE: RE: P. 143 of "Shogi for Beginners"


Just one last question to clear this up.  I'm sorry if you find my 
question unnecessarily speculative.

If the higher ranked player, who has taken the king general, is awarded 
sente through furigoma, do the two players then trade their kings?


Manabu Terao wrote:
> 
> 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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