From: Eric Cheymol IMAGINET FR> Date: 18 mar 1997 Subject: Re: "The Art of Shogi" Jonathan Tisdall wrote : >Sam Sloan's post was supporting Tony - not criticising him. He was >espousing the practical interpretation over "artistic" uses of >promotion/underpromotion. Benjamin Good wrote : >mr. sloan's comments were clearly intended to judge someone else's >thoughts on what the book should or shouldn't contain, not the book >itself. Pieter Stouten wrote : >If somebody's native language is not English, (s)he may easily misinterpret >what (s)he reads. Even native English or American speakers, are not >incapable of misinterpreting. So if someone does make a mistake, please >accept it. Of course, it may be pointed out if somebody has probably >misinterpreted a previous mail, but let's not tell other people that they >should not write certain things if they are not capable of reading >correctly. If you do have a problem with certain people contributing, bring >that please to their and my attention in private mails. If the intention of Sam Sloan's mail was to defend Tony's book, I recognize my error. Sam takes more often his pen to write criticisms than encouragements : read once the last mail from Sam about chess wrongly posted in Shogi-L, and many mails about Shogi. Roger Hare wrote : >I couldn't agree more. SS seems to delight in denigrating the attempts of >others to promote Shogi (or anything else for that matter). I really don't >understand the motives behind this. Knowing those mails, I took "I believe that the purpose of such a book is or should be to teach how to play shogi" on the ironical point of view. Everybody can misjudge :-) I hope this incident is over now, let's write about more interesting things. For example, has everybody thought to encourage Patrick Davin in solving the tsume ? I did and I hope most of you did the same. I remind you the address : Eric Cheymol ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get the last european Shogi news at ----------------------------------------------------------------------