From: Pieter Stouten <STOUTEN <at> EMBL <dot> BITNET>
Date: 24 jun 1990
Subject: The attitude to something new ....

Below the mail conversation arising from a simple challange for the
Shogi ladder. John Kenney forwarded it to me. He was the challenger.
I hope the attitude of the challenged player is not the prevalent one.
It will make the task to spread the beautiful game of Shogi very hard !
BTW: tomorrow I will put another game in the SHOGI-L archive.
 
  Pieter Stouten
  stouten <at> embl <dot> bitnet
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This is the response to my challenge.  I suggested that he flip a coin.
If it is heads I move first, in which case my move would be p-f7.
 
>From: ??
>Subj: RE: Shogi-L Challenge
>
>there is no suchumove as p-f7!
>
>illuplayuwhite
>
>1.e4
 
>From: EMBL::KENNEY "John Kenney"
Subj: response to what Shogi is.
 
>From: ??
>Subj: RE: Shogi-L Challenge
>
>if we arent playing regularuchess than forget it!
>im playing chessunothing else!
>if shogi-l isnt chessuthn im leaving!