From: Colin Paul Adams <colin <at> COLINA <dot> DEMON <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 26 aug 1996
Subject: Re: Playing live on the internet?

>>>>> "Albrecht" == Albrecht Heeffer <al <at> RIOS <dot> IMPAKT <dot> NETPOINT <dot> BE> writes:

    Albrecht> The Java Shogi server
    Albrecht> (http://dora.olu.info.waseda.ac.jp:8080/shogi/index.html)
    Albrecht> is becoming very popular the last couple of months. My
    Albrecht> guess is that this technology will soon replace
    Albrecht> telnet-based connections like IGS. For those of you who
    Albrecht> haven't tried it, I can really recommend the
    Albrecht> site. Graphics are excellent, there are always players
    Albrecht> willing to play, at any possible moment of the day and
    Albrecht> the software is continuously improved by Ryo Neyama. In
    Albrecht> the current version you can challenge an opponent of
    Albrecht> your strength (between 15 Kyu and 5 dan). I played about
    Albrecht> ten games a week during the summer months and never had
    Albrecht> to wait for an opponent.

    Albrecht> Hope to see you on the Java Shogi server to play a game!

Thank you - I just played a couple of games. It's great! - a shogi
club on my own doorstep!

I have a few questions:

1) How do I resign a game? The usage said: Menu -> Toryu (or something
like that), but I did not have such an entry on my menu (I use
Netscape 2.0 if it's relevant). I used Game -> bye
and that seemed to do the trick, but I wasn't sure.

2) Can I save the game scores?

3) Is there any way of pre-loading the Java applet before connecting
to the web? It would save some time and money.


Did I see you in Brussels this weekend? I met so many people,
but not many names stuck?

Colin