Originally posted by BloodRain
I say Shikamaru as hes put tons of hours into playing Shogi.
Wrong.
Chess requires the ability to be able to predict an opponent's moves and respond with the right moves.
L essentially played Chess with Light and would have have won if not for Rem the blatant plot device.
L's intelligence is vastly superior to Shikamaru's and his ability to predict his opponent's moves is hard to surpass.
L destroys Shikamaru.
Really I don't think we have enough to say L's intelligence is vastly superior. Shikamaru is very brilliant when it comes into tactics, and the kind of game played in death note of detective work is fairly different than a chess game.
I think it'd be a good match and if they played 10 times both would get wins.
Originally posted by FinalAnswer
He singled Light Yagami out of everybody on Earth. That's an example of his intelligence
Have to agree wit this and he also likened the "game" wit Kira to that of chess several times. I think L knows how to play chess and unlike Shikamaru, L is unrealistically intelligent.
I also would like to say, Shogi is not the same as chess, they are similar but shogi is easier.
Originally posted by King Kandy
lol how is Shogi easier, it's just that it's less played than chess so it doesn't have as many advanced strategies around it.
And you can also use your opponent's captured pieces against them. I wish I could do that in a Chess game, that would be so helpful. Chess is so damn harsh...I love it.