Chu Shogi - dax00 vs KaijiAUT 第二局

S - 3d

DH-5j

Was my go-between worth all this trouble? 🙃

GB - 4f

I can not tell if exactly this was the big problem. I at least didn't take the pawns what open the line. Well let's see how this continues 

The way my structure was set before trading off my rook is great for fighting the basic stuff. Ideal way to counter is a slow squeeze. I wouldn't have been so tenacious had you decided to go that route.

Insisting upon playing your preferred whatever just asks for trouble. Every system can be beat if you know what to do. The only true difference is in versatility, which makes some structures easier to play than others. But if I set up a structure that has an advantage over the basic easy-to-play structure, it's up to my opponent to adapt and change the pawn line. You still need to work on adaptation.

Metal-type opening vs wood-type opening. You have to change your weapon. Against a solid player, I would expect to change plans no fewer than 5 times in a game. It's useful not just to have a backup plan, but multiple backup plans, and backup plans to your backup plans, and maybe even one more level. It's also good if you can bluff your opponent on a plan, then quickly change to whatever beats what is good against what you bluffed.

Taking the go-between just invited lots of activity. If you knew what to do, my replies would've been relatively harmless. But the ideas are very tricky, and you have to consider the opponent. The one advantage you had in terms of playability was that you had many options and could afford slight inaccuracies; I, on the other hand, needed to make nearly perfect moves to stay on top, or else get destroyed (assuming correct play).

I see. Right now I don't have a experience with many different opening structures. But as you said last game, that you did think about these stuff a lot the two first years, I started to collect them. I hope I can build up and learn some different opening structures to be able to switch between them, this is all very interesting to me and has it's beauty that I think is unique to chu shogi (or say large board variants maybe). Therefore I also like how our second game set up differ from game one  

B x 5d

B x 8g

I expected you to play B-4e.

This might be better, but would still not help to free my other bishop.

B x 9g

DH x 9g

Earliest I've ever taken all four enemy bishops and horses. Interesting choice not to allow the lion trade, and then this.

I'll wait with my next move till tomorrow I guess. Need to consolidate general strategy before doing any moves that might look obvious on first sight. 

P - 7e

Okay decided quicker

Good idea. Conventional logic from chess doesn't really apply. Fighting for the sides or the 4th+5th files (which I like) is generally just as good as fighting for the center. I value go-betweens as much as golds, prefer vertical movers over rooks, prefer rooks over bishops, but prefer horses over dragons. Even then, it's not so clear-cut. Piece values drastically swing even in a span of 10 moves. It takes strong prediction/speculation skills to stay on top of that stuff and consistently make good decisions. Like playing a piece value stock market where all the stocks are volatile.

But don't get me wrong; material difference makes up only about 30% of my opening/mid-game evaluation. The positional part of my evaluation (~60%) is too complicated to explain. The remaining 10% of my eval covers versatility.