RicOlie_2

Wow, I didn't see that coming. I knew my horse was pinned, but for some reason, that obvious move didn't occur to me.

I would love to play Korean chess, but I don't want to be interrupted by my return home right at the peak of the game. This game took us about two weeks, and I leave in less time than that....

It looks like it solves a few minor flaws of Chinese chess (the limitation of the elephant, the uselessness of the pawns, and the immobility of the king), but the cannon not being able to move except by jumping seems limiting While it may work well in Ito Shogi where there's always a piece to jump over, it will weaken the piece a lot in this game. Maybe that won't turn out to be a bad thing. Have you tried playing it already? How have you found it?

I'm doing my best, but I'm very limited in what I can do, since just about any piece I move will undo my defenses enough to let you in. You're in control of the game right now, since all I can do at the moment is defend against whatever new threat each move of yours creates.

E-i3

R-d6

If it's ''H'' and he's being strangled by a Wookiee, don't you think it would mean ''help''?

Yup! I guess the square you were missing is on my side of the board.

We're sorry, they couldn't help themselves. ;)

-Team_PositiveOlie

No, we doubt anyone would want to do such a thing.

-Team_NegativeOlie

I can't complain when he does. ;)

No worries...as I said, it ended up being slightly better for me. I had overlooked something before.

H-e2

And I had thought it was you making the oversight...

T-22

I can't believe it...when I made that move, I had confused the silver cannon and the flying falcon (I wasn't thinking of it as a cannon at all). Now I feel silly.

I'll let you decide whether that merits being taken back or if I just need to pay more attention. ;)

EDIT: To save time if you choose the former, I would move SC-20.

That wasn't actually my planned move for when you moved your cannon down, but since I end up losing a mandarin instead of an elephant in this version, I'll stick with it. ;) The end result isn't vastly different anyway.

K-e3

Gx14(+)

Sxc7

S-d7

G-18

One nice thing about Ito Shogi is that the players begin interacting with each other right away, but the first player doesn't get a big advantage, since it isn't too hard to defend oneself.

T-21

I can't take credit for remembering...I had all the rules written down in the Excel file, so I checked with them. When I saw that our last version didn't agree with the rules you sent me, I hunted down our decision about it.

E-g1

S-d6

There's nothing much I can do right now without messing up my defenses. :P

E-e3

I would certainly enjoy another game of Ito Shogi. It's been a while since we played.

G-22

Goodness, that's a long board. How does it work in Zillions? Zillions doesn't seem to allow scrolling, necessitating visibility of the whole board, which I can't imagine would work well with such a long one.

Also, are we allowing only weak-side-up drops? That seemed to be our consensus last time we played, but I'm not sure if the rules you sent me had an error in that regard, or if you had changed your mind about it.

S-e6

I'm sure there's already a book about it.

ray_afraid said:

I really hate when the word 'random' is used in place of 'various'.
This site has several offending thread titles, but I can deal. It's been popping up everywhere in go though.
It bugs me almost as much as hearing people say "I could care less".
At least it doesn't have the opposite meaning of what is meant.

 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/could_care_less

Like it or not, it's a well-established English phrase, though I avoid using it myself at all costs (not quite all, but a good number of them).

Rxg6