Introducing captbirdseye
Hello, I'm Roger Hare - aka captbirdseye.
I've been interested in Shogi on and off since about 1966. Since retiring
I've revived my interest, although I'm not actually playing any games due
to the difficulty of finding opponents (I don't currently play across the
Internet). I'm just starting to play against my own computer using
Shogidokoro.
Current Shogi-related projects include trying to write a simple, short but
comprehensive introduction to Shogi for use on e-book readers such as the
Amazon Kindle, etc. Format will almost certainly be PDF. This will be
readable ASIS on your reader, or convertible to the appropriate reader-specific
format using software such as Calibre. I'm doing this because there is no
introductory material on Shogi available for e-book readers (not for the
Kindle, anyway).
At the moment, I am looking for a commented game suitable for introducing
Shogi to beginners - one which introduces Static and Ranging Rook and demonstrates
Castles - I am not expert enough to invent such a game myself and the games
I can find are all copyrighted. Can anyone help?
This document will be distributed by email as a PDF and will be free.
I'm also interested in Tori Shogi, Xiang-Chi and Go.
Roger Hare
I'm a little puzzled as to how this post (timestamped 2016-08-07 20:44) got here. This my original introductory post on 81 Dojo Forum (timestamped Sunday, 15th December, 2013, 09:17 AM).
I presume that the forum manager is now transferring material from the old forum?
Whatever, even three(ish) years down the line, the post is still substantially accurate...
Roger
Why don't you introduce a Fuji system ranging rook with Mino castle for gote played against static rook with anaguma castle for sente. That will give you the rook styles with two different castles. You can use joseki for the beginning and then introduce an early error by one side that leads to a quick mate. Then, point to a real pro game with these strategies and/or Hidetchi videos on the topic and/or a chapter in an English shogi book.
Thank you for your reply.
I am looking for an 'introductory' game with English comments such as the one which
appears in John Fairbairns 'Shogi for Beginners' or the one which appears on the web
pages for Gnu Shogi.
If I can't find such a game and get permission to use it, I will try and develop a game
myself and add my own comments.
Roger Hare
Dear Roger,
I don't think kifu have copyrights, but the comments in the commentated games are copyrighted.
Do you mean you want to use the original Japanese comments, almost only translating?
Then it is difficult to find a way to use them without permission, as I can't think of any non-copyrighted comments.
I'll see if I can find the best way to do it.
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