From: Loyd Willaford <loydw <at> DARKWING <dot> UOREGON <dot> EDU>
Date: 4 may 1998
Subject: Re: Dedicated shogi servers

>What sort of software and system would you recommend?  what about the
>connection?
>
>Tom Cook
>



>-----Original Message-----
>From: Loyd Willaford <loydw <at> DARKWING <dot> UOREGON <dot> EDU>
>To: SHOGI-L <at> techunix <dot> technion <dot> ac <dot> il <SHOGI-L <at> techunix <dot> technion <dot> ac <dot> il>
>Date: Sunday, May 03, 1998 12:32 PM
>Subject: Dedicated shogi servers
>
>
>>Does anyone know whether there are shogi servers (in Japanese or English)
>>that operate in a fashion similar to the Internet Chess Club or Free
>>Internet Chess Servers?  If so, what are their addresses and which
>graphical
>>interfaces are best to use with them?  I find the web based servers too
>slow
>>and cumbersome. ICC and FICS are easy to use, offer a wide range of
>>activities and are lag free--most of the time ;)
>>
>>If there aren't any such servers, some entrepeneur ought to set one up, ICC
>>charges $50 a year and there are regularly 500+ players logged in.  I'm
>sure
>>a shogi server would be a at least a break even enterprise.
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Loyd Willaford
>>
>
>

I'm not an expert on the technical issues, but I think that FICS and ICC run
on unix timesharing platform and probably have a direct pipeline, they run a
program called GNU Chess. With this program users can subsitute their own
version of a graphical interface or use a text board, though the graphical
interface is much easier and nicer to use.  I would suggest that you telnet to

ics.onenet.net  port 5000   (this is the FICS server) and then contact one
of the adminstrators for more information.

I wouldn't think it would be difficult, to adapt shogi to this technology
since there is already a chess variant called bughouse that employs the
shogi rule concerning dropping pieces back into play, and it is played
frequently.


Regards,

Loyd Willaford