From: Toshiaki Tanigawa <tanigawa <at> INT <dot> RDC <dot> RICOH <dot> CO <dot> JP>
Date: 13 oct 1995
Subject: Re: RICOH have a WWW SHOGI Page!!

 Dear my Shogi friends,

 My name is Toshiaki Tanigawa of Ricoh. May be as you know,
I am elder brother of Koji Tanigawa ( professional O-sho )

>>>>> On Thu, 12 Oct 1995 10:17:18 -0400, Pieter Stouten
 <stoutepf <at> CHEMSCI5 <dot> DMPC <dot> COM> said:

 Pieter, thank you very much for forwarding our mail which
announce Ricoh Shogi Homepage. I will add it some comments.

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>> [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.

 It is not so easy to translate them to English, but we will
do it little by little.


>> 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

  This is by kind help by Mr.Grimbergen.

>>       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).

 I gathered many informations, and Mr.Ogawa put them on WWW.

 Because Ricoh has many strong amateur players, I hope they
will provide many interesting informations.


 Anyway, Enjoy !!

>> Enjoy! Pieter.

                                 Toshiaki Tanigawa
                                 Ricoh Comapny Ltd.
                                 <tanigawa <at> int <dot> rdc <dot> ricoh <dot> co <dot> jp>