From: "Julio A.N.T. Soares" <jtsoares <at> IF <dot> USP <dot> BR>
Date: 7 dec 1995
Subject: Re: IGS/ISS thread

"Jose E. Gomez" <gomez004 <at> NEURO <dot> MED <dot> UMN <dot> EDU> wrote:
>
>Hi all,
>
>I have been listening to the discussions on the subject of the IGS/ISS and
>have been very excited about it. I would like to suggest that the list being
>combiled by julio soares be joined with the ladder list being kept by
>Matthias Mutz. The idea being that then when one challenges someone on the
>ladder, it will be easy to see if the game could be played on the ISS. Since
>my time on the ladder, my largest dissipointment has been the time length
>inherent in the email games. It would be nice to have the opportunity to
>finish them more rapidly. True, one could just send email and set up a game
>without need of the ladder, but the structure involved I think would be
>beneficial.
>
>Just a thought,
>
>Jose Gomez
>gomez004 <at> neuro <dot> med <dot> umn <dot> edu

Thanks for the idea Jose,
I think that one of the major advantadges of play by mail is that you don't
need to have one or two free hours to play games, you can do it spending
fifteen minutes a day, and I think that some people in the ladder use it for
this reason. Also, maybe some people of the ladder are not allowed to telnet to
game sites, and finally there are people that use the ladder as the only way
they can find an opponent.
For the first ones I think that the ladder is better as it is now, for the
people that cannot telnet to game sites, they can get a copy of xshogi (if they
are in a unix plataform) and try to arrange a time with his opponent to play
via challenging with this programm. The Last kind of ladder users could play
their games on ISS, and I very encourage them to do it.
Therefore, I think that just make the ladder to become played on the ISS is a
bad idea, but I also think that a ladder on ISS could be created, but I don't
have the time nor the experience to manage it, if someone does I'll help how I
could.

Cheers,
Julio.
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