From: Pieter Stouten EMBL BITNET> Date: 17 jun 1990 Subject: Algebraic Shogi Notation (skip the rest of this mail; not >From: EMBL::STOUTEN "Pieter Stouten" 24-APR-1990 18:06:39.12 To: STOUTEN CC: STOUTEN Subj: reply to Terry Asher @Drake Hi Terry, Since everything about this network shogi started before we knew it, we made some ad-hoc decisions. The board and pieces were a bad choice: small letters and capitals are not different enough in complicated situations. Therefore the board given below is in use now. Hope you don't mind. You can print the whole stack or parts of it with the commands under the File Menu. The default setting of the Shogi stack is that the Menu Bar is invisible. You can change that by pressing + at the same time and you'll have your menus. I know algebraic notation. There is only one problem. In order to indicate drops you need to give the name of the piece. This renders the beautifully consistent algebraic way useless. A compromise would be the algebraic notation with the abbreviation of the piece. If you then add a "x" instead of a "-" when a piece is captured you have what is the standard "long Shogi notation". I am a bit conservative with respect to introducing deviating notations. All these different chess notations in use horrify me. And the English notation is the worst by far. I am glad that we managed to have one Shogi notation system in Europe. Even the French agreed to the system introduced by the Shogi Association in England. Bye, Pieter.