From: Tim Casey <tcasey <at> MV <dot> US <dot> ADOBE <dot> COM>
Date: 8 oct 1993
Subject: Re: shogi grades

> From: Rob Hooft <HOOFT%EMBL-HEIDELBERG.DE <at> VM <dot> TAU <dot> AC <dot> IL>
> Subject:      Re: shogi grades

> John Kenney (embl1) writes:
>
> > PS Unlike Go, Shogi has as its lowest grade 15 Kyu (so Andrew you'll have
> >    to be "promoted" to 15 Kyu, congratulations! :-)

> A warning: while digging in the server manual, I read that it
> is really worthwile to put your rating right BEFORE PLAYING YOUR
> FIRST game. It may only be true for GO, but the manuals say that it is
> very difficult to correct the rating after a tournament game. Has something
> to do with the automatic rating calculation.

This has to do with calculating ratings.  For now all the shogi games
will not have any ratings associated with them, so it does not matter.

tim