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Nicholas Wolff wrote on Fri, May 28, 2010 03:04 AM UTC:

During some down time, I was browsing different variants and came across
this beast on our pages.  The stats:

- 36x36 board (1,296 spaces)
- 402 pieces per side
- 209 different types
- 253 different moves
- Each player averages over 1000 moves/game

So far, this is the largest discovered/invented shogi variant.  I want to
look over the rules a bit more, but I will be interested in play a game
with somebody if there is anyone out there interested.

Creating a preset would be very time consuming and too big on the screen
for comprehension, so I am thinking an email game might be best.  I would
like to play according to the rule set found at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi

as they seem to be the most complete set that I can find.  If anyone wishes
to join me on this daunting task, I would be most appreciative and
welcoming.  If we average a move per day, this will take a couple of years!
 Shoot me an email at nicholasjaywolff@gmail.com or reply to this, but
please finish the game with me if you plan on playing.

Nicholas Wolff wrote on Mon, May 31, 2010 01:26 PM UTC:

Daniil Frolov:

You seem to have taken an avid interest in shogi and its variants.  I have
created (through lots of time, determination, and finger ache) a Microsoft
Excel spreadsheet of this shogi variant, complete with comments on the
pieces denoting how they move and what they promote to.  If you have the
program (or a google documents account) I would like to play a game of this
with you.  We can email the board back and forth to each other.  Would you
like to play?

Best,
Nick

Daniil Frolov wrote on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:15 AM UTC:

Are you asking me?
I'm really interested in shogi and other chess variants, but playing
taikyoku shogi in practice seems too exotical for me... All the more, i am
not well chess player, so playing with me will only waste your your time,
you need more experienced opponent (unless you are not well chess player
to).

Nicholas Wolff wrote on Tue, Jun 1, 2010 10:24 AM UTC:

I am a decent chess player (self-proclaimed, mind you), but shogi and its
variants have never been good to me.  I found a lot of inconsistencies with
the pieces for the spreadsheet I made (too many typing errors and such), so
I am doing a revamp which might take a while.  If you are interested, shoot
me an email nicholasjaywolff@gmail.com and I will send you the finished
product when I am done.  If you don't want to waste the time on it, no big
deal.  Take care and thanks for consideration.

Best,
Nick

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