From: Patrick Davin LYRA VEGA OR JP> Date: 6 feb 1997 Subject: Re: Annotated Professional Games (English/Japanese) Patrick: >>I suspect many people are starving for shogi in English, and to >>that end, I'm going to try and post some stuff on the web. >>The price: free. The address: >> >>http://www.vega.or.jp/~patrick/shogi/ >> >> >>I'd like to make it kind of an online magazine, but my time and >>abilities are limited. (volunteers?) >> Charles S. Smith: >What do you mean by volunteers? What I meant was collaborators. Or contributors. Or a co-editor. Shogi is a great game. But there is a distinct lack of instructive, informative, entertaining shogi resources in English. I have posted some pro shogi news, some raw game scores, and one annotated game. I would _like_ to post more of the same and also different stuff, such as instructional articles, joseki, proverbs, glossary of castles, combinations, find the next move problems, tsumeshogi, brinkmates, shogi history, player profiles, crosstables, you name it. Unfortunately, I can't do it all myself and even if I could, it wouldn't be interesting. There need to be a variety of styles. Therefore, if someone has an idea for an article, but (for example) lacks resources to make a nice HTML layout, speak up and let's put our heads together... OR I could also use some help with technical/artistic points. An improved layout, for example, or a way to make smaller diagrams. -Patrick P.S. I think there is an ELO-style rating system for European Shogi. I wonder if anybody is rating Japanese Pro Shogi. If not, would somebody like to? There's a total 200 or so players and 2 or 3 thousand games annually, maybe 50 a week on average.