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> And, you are expected to recognize a checkmate and resign Is that different from chess?
by SamBam 6y ago
> And, you are expected to recognize a checkmate and resign
Is that different from chess?
- 29athrowaway 6y agoNot different to offline chess, but online shogi will usually expect you to resign and penalize you if you don't. Although it is rather hard to explain for a beginner like myself. Mating in shogi is complicated... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmate https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinkmate
- jandrese 6y agoI assume the penalty is in some metagame ranking? An in-game penalty for failing to recognize that you have already lost seems pointless.
- S4M 6y agoI also play shogi online on 81dojo like the GP. Yes, I think the penalty is meta-game: people can say you have bad manners, which will affect your "social credit" on the server, or you will banned from playing for a while if you do it too much (not sure about that).
- SamBam 6y agoI'm guessing that when you say "checkmate" above that it's more like go than chess? In chess you have literally no legal moves, but in go a good player just knows that it's hopeless to continue, and it's rude to keep going.
- S4M 6y agoNo, "checkmate" in shogi is the same as as in chess. What I meant to say is that if you are checkmated, you have to resign for the game to be over (on 81dojo). In theory, you could be a dick and not do anything until you run out of time for example, but that would be bad manner and you would be sanctioned for that.
- umanwizard 6y agoIf you have literally no legal moves why can’t the game just be programmed to stop?
- S4M 6y agoYou are right, the game could just be programmed to stop when one player is mated. The reason they didn't is, I think, to mimic the real life shogi play where the game ends when one player recognizes defeat.