From: ATKINSON <at> ROMA1 <dot> INFN <dot> IT
Date: 1 feb 1993
Subject: Shogi terms

Sente=black, gote=white? Really? Even when white has sente?
"Better Moves for Better Shogi" has a reasonably gobsmacking list of
terms with pronunciation, kanji and translation.
Some backnumbers of the Hodges magazine contain lists of terms too,
including handy ones like "potato style", useful for describing one's
own standard of play (unless one is Reijer or Pieter, of course).
One of the Japanese people who came to play with me at Castel Sant'Angelo
always used to say "insegnami" before games, and when he wanted me to show
him the answer to a Tsume-Shogi he couldn't do. "insegnami" is the Italian
polite imperative "teach me". (Actually, I tend to avoid using the polite
form of the imperative since if I am being polite to someone, it is probably
better to avoid giving orders. More reasonable to say things like
"Could you open that window, please?" than "open that window!", polite form
or not.
Adam Atkinson, Rome