From: Kevin Delashmit AOL COM> Date: 22 mar 1997 Subject: Re: Spreading shogi in the west - another anecdote (1) In a message dated 97-03-22 00:59:09 EST, you write: > I would like to know how people started to >playing Shogi in each country. It would be very interesting to know, >perhaps for other members, too. I can add to that, I'm in the USA, but... As a teenager in the 70's (that's 1970's to you young-uns), I was living in a military boarding school near Istanbul, Turkey. I made friends with a man who was traveling the Orient studying the use of the English language for a major University. He was a very interesting man who made friends with everyone he met ( even had a picture of himself with a desert bandit chiefton who stopped his bus in a desert). He taught me and a few friends to play and gave me a small Shogi set. I've known the moves for all these years without anyone to play and with no knowledge of strategy (that , of course, still is escaping me). Until the internet came along, I just kept the set as a nice gift from a very interesting friend. Del