From: "Samuel H. Sloan (my real name)" <VanUpp <at> AOL <dot> COM>
Date: 15 oct 1995
Subject: Re: Japanese or English names

Miss Watai, incidentally, is or was the Secretary of the Japan Chess
Association and the right hand woman of Yasuji Matsumoto, the President. I
have been in her office many times, in Kawasaki or thereabouts, I believe it
was. I also met her in Dubai, 1986.

Mr. Matsumoto deeply dislikes shogi and probably wants to discourage the use
of shogi terms in chess. However, Mr. Matsumoto is a 4-dan shogi player and
defeated me several games. I never defeated him. (I am a 2-dan shogi player,
as rated by the Shinjuku Shogi Center on Yasukuni Dori in Tokyo.)

Nevertheless, I stand by my statement that the top chess players in Japan use
shogi terms, and do not use the terms given in Miss Watai's book.

Sam Sloan