From: Andrew Okun <okun <at> ENI <dot> NET>
Date: 1 dec 1999
Subject: Yahoo!

It occurs to me, given the current cloud of sour spit-balls going back and
forth on this list, that a new topic of conversation is needed. How about
this:  I often play hearts and have occasionally played chess on Yahoo!'s
java-based game site, http://games.yahoo.com/.  The interfaces on all the
Yahoo! games are far beyond the quality of other java game sites I have
used.  On top of that, it handles a pretty staggering quantity of play.  At
this very moment, it is handling more than 36,000 players, including more
than 4,000 chess players. It strikes me that if we help out the Yahoo! games
people to set up a Shogi area, including code for robot players, we would
have an invaluable tool for evangelizing the game among non-Japanese.  The
name would have exposure among the tens of thousands of players at the site,
we would have an excellent interface to which to refer people who want to
learn about the game, practice or meet other players.

How about it?

Andy Okun