Jianying Ji wrote on Tue, Mar 11, 2003 08:30 AM UTC:
Since pieces never disapear from the game, in shogi the values are all
positional. That is pieces in hand can be considered as just another
position for the pieces to be. and that value is assessed for a position
taking into account of the positions of all pieces including those in
hand and whose turn it is. So in a sense it is more like go, only
holistic evaluation can be done.