From: margarid <at> MET <dot> INPE <dot> BR
Date: 23 mar 1997
Subject: Re: One quick question!

At 08:19 21/03/97 GMT, you wrote:
>> What do all of the people on this shogi list call the chess played in
>> America?
>
>And in one or two other places too, Shurely?
>

In Brazil the game is called "xadrez".   There are no adjectives, because (I
supose) as in USA there are no other versions widely known.

And shogi is known as "shogui" (portuguese pronunciation, as to us the
syllable "gui" has a sound similar to that in the english world "give", and
"gi" sounds similar to "gymnasium"), or also is called "xadrez japones"
(japanese chess).

Note: this difference between english "shogi" and portuguese "shogui" was
one of my doubts when I started to think about a shogi (or shogui) page in
portuguese...    :-)     By the way, that idea has been postponed but not
yet forget.


Regards,
          Martins