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Subject: Re: I was trying to make sense of this, can some Shogi player explain it ?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 10:07:15 03/03/03

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As I understand, he mean in Shogi you can start searching for a mate very soon
in the game, because the biggest difference with chess is : in Shogi, as a move,
you can put a piece you took to your opponent anywhere on the board !
May be there are 10 more lines where you've to check "is there a mate or not ?"

Just an hint ... ;)


On March 03, 2003 at 09:00:23, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>
>Lautier: Do you find chess more, or less complex than Shogi?
>
>Habu: Before I learned how to play chess, I thought the two games had to be very
>similar. I think now that they are very different. In chess, it's important to
>have a good position, whereas in Shogi, it's more important to be the first one
>who delivers checkmate! I couldn't say which of the two is more complex
>
>In this interview with Habu who is also rated 2340 by FIDE, when he stated that
>in Shogi, it's more important to be the first one who delivers checkmate! I know
>that he is was awared that this is the ultimate goal for both games. What I'm
>trying to understand is what exactly did he mean or was trying to say? I took
>this message as (in Shogi it's more important who initiates the attack first,
>whereas in chess it is NOT always the case, since some useless check are more
>harmful than a very well calculate check, which will yield some material
>advantage).
>
>http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=314



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