From: Takenobu Takizawa <takizawa <at> MN <dot> WASEDA <dot> AC <dot> JP>
Date: 21 mar 1997
Subject: Re: Western Chess (was: One quick question!)

> Charles:
> >>What do all of the people on this shogi list call the chess played in
> >>America?
>
> I call it chess.
>
>
> Pieter:
> >I wonder how
> >Japanese would refer to it.
>
> The Japanese say "chesu" or, less commonly, "yo-shogi" (= Western Shogi)

I have not heard "yo-shogi", but sometimes heard "seiyo-shogi".
We usually call it just "chess".

Takenobu Takizawa