From: Chris Sterritt ADMS-RAD UNISYS COM> Date: 8 may 1990 Subject: Welcome to everyone Hello, Just a note to say "Welcome!" to every one who's signed up in the past couple of days. It's great to see the notices I get (as one of the owners of the list) pouring in. Larry Blankenship, Jr. writes: >HI, >I WANT TO INTRODUCE MYSELF TO THIS LIST. MY NAME IS LARRY BLANKENSHIP. >I AM AN AVERAGE(UNRANKED) CHESS PLAYER. FROM DESCRIPTIONS ON CHESS-L, SHOGI >SOUNDS INTERESTING TO ME. IF SOMEONE HAS THE TIME (AND THE PATIENCE), I >WOULD LIKE TO LEARN TO PLAY. PERHAPS THE ORIGINATOR OF THE LIST IS PLANNING >SOME KIND OF GROUP INSTRUCTION? ANYWAY I AM GLAD TO BE HERE... Welcome Larry! Glad you're here. There will be several things coming on the Shogi list, and one of them will be the updated rules text that myself and others (emphasis on the others!) are putting together. We are also hoping that one or two of the real expert types will be putting up tutorial messages, and/or articles from Shogi magazines. We will also be maintaining and updating a list of places to write, clubs to join in local areas, etc. Please, everyone, feel free to suggest things we can do, ideas, etc. The more participation, the better! For my first real submission, I hereby donate to the net an ASCII board that should be suitable for email play. Pieter Stouten is mainly to thank for this board: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 +--------------------------------------------+ White in hand: | wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a +------------------+ +--------------------------------------------+ | | | | wR | | | | | | wB | | b | | +--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | c +-------------------------------------------- | | | | | | | | | | d +--------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | e +--------------------------------------------+ | | | | | | | | | | f +--------------------------------------------+ | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | g +--------------------------------------------+ Black in hand: | | bB | | | | | | bR | | h +------------------+ +--------------------------------------------+ | | | bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL | i | | +--------------------------------------------+ +------------------+ When a piece promotes, it will be shown with a preceding "+", as in "+bL". There is no official space on the board yet for notating the game, so Pieter and I (in a game we are playing via email) have been listing the moves Above the board. This seems to work well, as you can see the latest moves and the board as well. Enjoy! chris sterritt