From: Tony Salvaggione <SalvaAC <at> AOL <dot> COM>
Date: 17 may 1996
Subject: Re: notation

Just for my two cents worth - I have no preference towards any of the systems
used - Kanji or whatever western notation systems I've seen.  I'd agree that
the P-7f is easier for me to read because I'm more used to it, and the Kanji
are easier too because of reading game scores out of Japanese magazines, but
so long as a system is logical, it doesn't matter to me.  I guess maybe it's
like the chess d4 as opposed to KRP-KR4.  You can figure any of them out, but
some are easier by experience.  And yes I know western chess in the western
world has had MUCH more following and norms are more set in stone......

I do agree that it would help to spread things out one move per line rather
than a paragraph form.  It is easier to keep place.

Four years ago I had to teach my college room-mate how to play shogi to have
an opponent, and now there's discussion on standard western notation.  I
guess I've come a long long way!

Tony Salvaggione