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Subject: Re: Shogi variant

Author: Bella Freud

Date: 15:37:11 11/17/99

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On November 17, 1999 at 18:08:20, Pete Galati wrote:

>A Shogi variant program for win95 not by Chris:
>http://www.netspace.net.au/~trout/index.html
>
>The game is too confusing for me.
>
>Pete

It is a great game. Material values of pieces change dramatically, to be useless
on some squares, and never get back to the action. There is never a reduction to
a piece-starved endgame. One side can often win with almost all material lost.
Many pieces have limited or zero backwards mobility, so getting your king into
the enemy camp is an option. Great game, much deeper than chess. Bean-counting
not possible at present search depths. All is decided by king action.


Bella




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