From: Pieter Stouten <stoutepf <at> CHEMSCI5 <dot> dmpc <dot> com>
Date: 12 oct 1995
Subject: RICOH have a WWW SHOGI Page!!

[Sorry if you receive this more than once; we have had serious
problems with our mail service/PFWS]

Hi Shogi afficionados,

As of this September Ricoh Company have their WWW server up and running.
The home page is http://www.ricoh.co.jp/. Several of the pages at Ricoh's
server can only be watched properly with Netscape 1.1N or higher.

Recently, Ricoh also made available the "RICOH Shogi Homepage"
(http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI). First, most of the Shogi material will be
in Japanese, but they have plans to translate it to English at a later
date, probably a few months from now. An announcement as to whether English
translations will be made available can be expected before the end of 1995.

The Ricoh Shogi web pages cover the following:
  1. RICOH-SHOGI-CLUB Introduction
  2. SHOGI Rules
  3. Professional SHOGI Information
  4. Amateur SHOGI Information
  5. RICOH sponsored Championship
  6. Kifu watching
  7. Tsume shogi

The following pages are to a large extent in English:
  * European SHOGI Championships
      http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/ricoh/ESC.html
      [Check this one out! It has a list of all European Championships
      from 1985 onwards with winners and runners-up plus a more detailed
      report on this year's championship. It also features the crucial
      game Grimbergen-Cheymol in the 7th round of the 1995 EC with
      positions after each move. Real cool! /PFWS]
  * SHOGI-RULES
      http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/rules/erules.html
      [Very nicely done as well. Worth taking a look. /PFWS]

If you have any comments or question, please send e-mail to Ricoh at
www-shogi <at> raspberry <dot> rsc <dot> spdd <dot> ricoh <dot> co <dot> jp.

All of the above information was provided by Hiroyoshi Ogawa
(ogawa <at> toda <dot> ricoh <dot> co <dot> jp).

Enjoy! Pieter.

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