RicOlie_2

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

But I can't check you if I'm already in check myself. ;)

The game is designed to be played by little kids, so I'm not surprised it ended quickly. I kept thinking of the raccoon as being akin to a rook, so I thought I was going to be able to save myself this move.

We could try another small variant. I've got two weeks left to play.

P-e2

R-f6

Most people don't end their sentences after the period.

I sense the end of the game fast approaching.

Cxe7

Cx4f

Sxe5