From: Thomas Majewski <dewabmaj <at> IBMMAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 8 oct 1996
Subject: Grading in Shogi variants

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Betreff: Grading in Shogi variants

I think, that to have a proper grading in a variant, one has to look at the
games of the players. Then one might be able to have a proper grade to start
with. I have played through the gamescores of most of the postal tori shogi
players and I think it is possible to make an estaimation of how strong a
player is by seeing his games. If you look at a game of David Murphy (former
European Shogi Champion) you would not dare to give him a rank of 8. Kyu or
so. I think it is quite OK to give the strongest amateur player the rank of
shodan, which still gives room to the top if Habu decides to try Tori.

Thomas

Thomas Majewski
WABCO
Hannover, Germany
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