From: atkinson <at> VAXROM <dot> CERN <dot> CH
Date: 26 apr 1991
Subject: Tolerably wondrous cardboard objects

Where can I get some of those paper/cardboard sets that Klaus
had at Frankfurt? Do I need to write to the NSR, or does one of the
European sources have a stock of them?
 
I haven't had an issue of the Ishi Press Shogi magazine for what seems
like quite a while now. What is the last issue of it that people out
there have seen, and when?
 
Still no useful information about the games thing June 12-16. Thus
far I have been told I can come along and show Shogi to people
without needing to pay for the privelige. The venue won't allow anything
to be sold, so "GeV" is clearly not a trade fair. There are going
to be some "speeches", but as there are rooms specially for these, one
can simply ignore them.
 
I will send another message when I know something useful. Pieter Stouten
has sent me a message asking for more info when I have it. Would anyone
reading this be inclined to visit Rome in June, not necessarily ONLY
to play Shogi with beginners but possibly to thrash a few beginners and
to see Rome. I can offer tolerable hospitality to smallish numbers
of people (3 or 4), intolerable hospitality to slightly greater numbers,
and can say "Er. Dunno, really" should large numbers of people be seized
by an insane desire to come to Rome.
 
If you are at all interested, please let me know what you would need to
know before you could make up your mind.
 
Is there a Chinese Chess list on the net? Anyone know where I can get
any books in any language at all other than the Ishi press one?
(The Flammirion one is out of print, I have been told).
 
Adam Atkinson
Rome