From: Jeff Mallett CRUZIO COM> Date: 1 feb 1996 Subject: NOST Web Page (Was: More Tai &otherShogivar.) Hi shogi players, I'd like to announce a new URL: The NOST Home Page http://www.cruzio.com/~tao/NOST/ NOST (Knights of the Square Table) is a correspondence organization for game play. While international chess is the most popular game, many other games are played as well (I'm currently playing postal 9-line go and a chess variant.) In the mid sixties NOST helped introduce Go to U.S. game players by organizing postal Go matches with players in Japan. I bring this to your attention because the (postal) tournament schedule regularly includes shogi and some variants: TOURNEY START GAME ------------- ---- January 1996 Shogi April 1996 Tori Shogi November 1996 Minishogi There is an English-language bulletin, "NostAlgia", that the organization publishes six times a year. The second-to-last issue (#351) contained 15 shogi problems to solve! Other shogi variants are played through NOST as well. For example, a glance into issue #351 also shows me that R. Wayne Schittberger (who has promoted Chu Shogi in both Hodges promotional literature and his own book "New Rules For Classic Games") has a result in for a game of Chu Shogi he played. Of course other Japanese games and variants are played as well, e.g. TOURNEY START GAME ------------- ---- February 1996 Go-Moku April 1996 9-line Go June 1996 Chessgi (chess variant with drops) July 1996 11-line Go September 1996 13-line Go October 1996 Go Corner Game, Othello November 1996 19-line Go If you want more information or want to join, you can follow the URL, or email to Ronleigh Dale interramp com>. Please mention your interest in Shogi. Thanks, - Jeff P.S. If your language is Italian, another poster to SHOGI-L, Alessandro Castelli mclink it>, heads up a sister organization there called A.I.S.E. (Associazione Italiana Scacchi Eterodossi). They also publish a bulletin: "Eteroscacco". ----------------------------------------------------- Jeff Mallett jeffm cruzio com Strategy Labs, Inc. http://www.cruzio.com/~tao/ Voice: (408) 338-6324 Fax: (408) 338-6325 -----------------------------------------------------