Author: Jay Scott
Date: 17:09:59 03/03/03
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On March 03, 2003 at 09:00:23, Jorge Pichard wrote: >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! In shogi there are often extremely deep forcing tactical sequences, and having the initiative means you're the one who's doing the forcing. Compared to chess, the initiative is more valuable and material and long-term positional factors are less important. Being tactical does not necessarily make shogi easier for computers. Because you can drop pieces anywhere (subject to a few rules), the branching factor is giant.
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