From: Yoshinori Sawada <sawada <at> FA2 <dot> SO-NET <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 27 aug 1996
Subject: Re: GREETING TO THEE

Dear Takako-san

Hello!! I am very curious about old documents you mentioned. Can you
introduve the name of the documentations? Does that have old kifu?
If so, I would like to ask you to disclose that in this ML.


Takako Noda <mxc06231 <at> JA2 <dot> SO-NET <dot> OR <dot> JP> wrote $B!' (J
>Hello. I learned how to play shogi through a game machine. Not a cyberkid, t
>hough. I seem to have developed a major computer phobia in the past couple o
>f months trying to get used to the system. To that generation I belong, you
>see?  As a player of shogi I'm lousy, but I'm very interested in its history
>, its finely elaborated tactics, tsume problems, professional games, etc. In
> other words, I just love everything about shogi. During this summer vacatio
>n I read some old documents on shogi, one of which is an encyclopedic docume
>ntation compiled in the 12th century. Not the original version, of course.
>But it was a thrilling experience to find that the old shogi was played unde
>r a quite different rule. Would you be interested in hearing about these thi
>ngs?
>
>              TAKAKO:  E-mail address: mxc06231 <at> ja2 <dot> so-net <dot> or <dot> jp
>

Best wishes
Yoshinori Sawada
Tokyo Japan
E-mail address: sawada <at> fa2 <dot> so-net <dot> or <dot> jp
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