From: Naohiro Nishiguchi <nni585 <at> NWU <dot> EDU>
Date: 21 mar 1997
Subject: Re: Western Chess (was: One quick question!)

At 21:25 97/03/20 -0500, you wrote:
>On 97/03/20 at 19:02 -0500, Charles S Smith wrote:
>
>>What do all of the people on this shogi list call the chess played in
>>America?
>>
>It's also played outside America. I believe Russia has some decent players.
>I have heard most westerners refer to it as Western Chess. Sometimes they
>call it (in translation) ordinary, normal or regular Chess. I wonder how
>Japanese would refer to it.

As far as I know, we call it simply.."chess".. Whenever we mention Chess,
it  means western Chess and people usually get it...