From: Sam Sloan ISHIPRESS COM> Date: 24 jan 2001 Subject: Re: Shogi book for beginner... On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:02:15 -0000, "Mark" hotmail com> wrote: >The Art of Shogi by Tony Hoskins is a good read > >Mark > >Kingston T aol com> wrote in message >news:20010122205705.18806.00000762 ng-da1 aol com... >> Anders asked: >> >I have seen Shogi as a game that looks interesting for quite some time. >> >Now I have decided it is time to start trying to learn the game. What >> >book do you recommend as a good book for beginners? >> >> I hardly qualify as an authority, but a decent treatment of Shogi for >western >> players seems to be found in "Shogi: Japan's Game of Strategy", by Trevor >> Leggett (Charles Tuttle & Co., 1993). I got it at Barnes & Noble. It >includes a >> paper board and pieces. >> >> Taylor Kingston >> Sorry, I know you meant well, but this is a terrible book. In the preface, Trevor Leggett claims that his strength at shogi was 5-dan. I know people who knew him and they say that his strength was 5-kyu. To put this in chess terms, a 5-dan player is about 2300 strength or perhaps a bit lower. A 5-kyu player is about 1300 strength or perhaps a bit lower. The book was so bad that I probably lost a month before I realized that the advice it contained was less than worthless. The best book everyone agrees is Shogi for Beginners by John Fairbairn, published by my company naturally. You can find that book at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/4906574971/slavesofthomasje Sam Sloan http://www.samsloan.com/shogi.htm