From: ATKINSON%VAXROM.decnet.CERN CERNVAX BITNET Date: 27 jul 1990 Subject: No Subject Novag produces a Chinese Chess computer. It is on sale in Rome, so it is almost certainly findable in Chinese areas of other major cities. It's reasonably cheap, by chess computer standards. It beats me, which doesn't really say very much. It has 9 proper levels and an "until interrupted" level. See the book "Chinese Chess for Beginners" by Ishi Press (address in the address file on SHOGI-L) for details of this sort of thing. Also there are rules for all 6 current "significant" chess games (ie chesses with at least 1 million current regular players). Useful tactic: take your shogi set (or chinese chess set, or whatever) to some suitably cosmopolitan locale (eg University postgrad dining place) and play shogi/etc with a chum. Sooner or later someone will ask you what the hell you are doing, and if the Uni has Chinese/Japanese researchers/profs etc there is a good chance someone may volunteer to thrash you totally. I for one was VERY interested in the news about the tournament in Frankfurt. More items of this type please! Sho-ten is so infrequent that I don't get good warning of the tournaments in the UK, and now that I am not in the UK, I would like news of European tournaments as well. Are there any Kaufman acolytes on the net anywhere? He has a cluster of 2-4 dan apprentices, I believe. Does Glyndon Townhill still play Shogi?