From: "Pieter Stouten, Date: 13 may 1993 Subject: Re: next move Recently, Jon Slate and Harold Shore (?) exchanged mails about their mutual e-mail game and some questions were raised. Permit me to violate their privacy and provide my opinion. >from chess, not shogi: one always repeats his opponents move, >then follows this with his own. Thus you would write > 1) P-7f (this was my move) > 2) P-3d (this was your move) > > In like manner I would respond as > > 2) P-3d (confirming your move) > 3) P-6f (my new move) > Although in Shogi moves by black and white are COUNTED as separate moves (as opposed to Chess where moves are counted in pairs), the actual system adopted in the West to SCORE moves is like the Chess system. This is not in conflict with Japanese scoring systems since they normally do not refer to moves by sequential numbers. So the above exchange would be scored as: 1) P7f P3d 2) P6f In Shogi counting these are three moves. When I send my move to my opponent in an e-mail game, I repeat the entire sequence from beginning to end. Although this wastes a little bandwidth, it has the advantage that at any time one has the complete game available. Normally, I also append an ASCII representation of the actual position so that my opponent can put the pieces on the board without having to go through the entire sequence of moves. The only thing my opponent has to do is add his new move to the game score, modify the position on the ASCII board accordingly and send the updated file back to me. This is just the way I do it (and like to do it) and I don't intend to impose this way on anybody. Please do what you feel most comfortable with. >They [the ladder rules] state that each of us is independently supposed to >write Technion saying that we are playing a game and who has which color. > In practice it may suffice if only one person informs the ladder coordinator of having started a game and of its result after it has finished. Ladder coordinator is Adam Chalcraft phoenix cambridge ac uk>. Hope this helps. Cheers, Pieter.