From: Chris Sterritt <chris <at> ADMS-RAD <dot> UNISYS <dot> COM>
Date: 4 jun 1990
Subject: The ladder begins!

Hello,
 
	The Shogi Ladder officially begins!  The following people are the
ones who have asked to be on the ladder so far.  Please feel free to join!
I understand that some games are already in progress, and so this is just
the 'first cut' at the ladder; please let me know if you have a game going
that you want considered for ladder competition.  This should be by agreement
of both players; that is, if one player is not going to be on the ladder,
then the game should not be considered.
 
	In the next posting I make, I will send the official Ladder rules.
There are two points to make about the rules: first, so far we only have
five players, but the 'number one through five must respond or lose their
position' will hold.  This is to avoid confusion later on.  Secondly, the
'approved' board is still under discussion, but the agreement-by-both-players
option makes that easy for now.
 
	I am the ladder coordinator; my email address is
 
		chris <at> adms-rad <dot> unisys <dot> com
 
which is an Internet address.  If you can't send me email, tell me so via
the Shogi-L board, and we'll try to work something out.
 
	The initial, randomly-placed ladder rankings:
 
1.  Joe Kennedy            KENNEDY <at> cvax <dot> ipfw <dot> indiana <dot> edu
2.  Terry Asher            TA2321S <at> DRAKE <dot> BITNET
3.  John Kenney            KENNEY <at> EMBL <dot> BITNET
4.  Pieter Stouten         STOUTEN <at> EMBL <dot> BITNET
5.  Chris Sterritt         chris <at> adms-rad <dot> unisys <dot> com
 
 
	I will update this with a fourth column to indicate games in progress
when you either let me know of a game in progress, or start a new game via
a challenge.
 
	Note, this is going out to both the Chess-L and Shogi-L groups, but
FEEL FREE to tell other people about it!  We'd love to improve the number
of people.  Also please note that you may have asked me to add your name to
the ladder, and you're not there: Please forgive me, I've been pretty busy
lately.  Just drop me a note, I'm organized now!
 
	thanks,
	chris sterritt