From: Hans Kaplan <hkaplan <at> SWIPNET <dot> SE>
Date: 1 dec 1999
Subject: Normal people ?

Hallo Shogi-players

I played chess some years in Sweden, now its very clear for me that
chesspeople in
general are not as other people. Sorry to say, I found them not
trustable but dishonest
and strange. Many are asocial. Ofcourse not all, but an unnormal big
percent.
I worked 7 years as a teacher, I teached people much older than me. My
experience of
grown-up people is big. Among chess-players I can hardly find a real
grown-up.
Some leaders in the chessclubs, working with children, are something
like authists, people
that you cant talk with in a normal way, more like robots.
In the chessfederation we find very strange men, never worked with other
stoff than chess.

How is the situation in Shogi around the word ?
Is there the same problem ?
For me it seem to be so here in Sweden, the shogifederation is only some
years old,
now some of the most stupid chessplayers started to play Shogi.
(One of them is spitting and pinking on graves in the nights, only one
but a very good
example)
I started to like the game more than chess, my relatives and I own some
houses in the
Stockholm area, I thought of starting a good place for both Shogi and
chessplaying,
to give normal people an alternative to the dull place they play now.
The leader for the Shogifed,. here, Danerud, started a conversation with
me with a mail.
When I told him that I thought of starting a Shogi-club, he didnt even
answer !
It doesnt at all surprise me, that the situation is the same in this
sector.

Compare with what was written 2 weeks ago about "how is the brain
affected".
A big mistake is to believe that chess or Shogiplayers in general have a
high IQ.
Its the opposite. The brain is getting programmed of these things, only
programmed
for chess or Shogi. Cause the diff. its very good to play the booth.
But the brain must be used in some other areas to get good working.
I have read the "latest" about braincells and what they need.
Something to think about for you playing very much.
There are many much more relevant problems in the life than how to
capture ...

Good luck. I leave this soon, answer now !