From: "Manabu, Terao" <mt_shogi <at> LYCOS <dot> NE <dot> JP>
Date: 2 dec 1999
Subject: Re: Yahoo!

My point is that Shogidojo has a high potential to be a real Shogi
portal site worldwide if all the function of it become available in
English and I never deny the possibility for any mass-market portal
site like Yahoo to be lisenced by Shogidojo.

In my opinion, the success factors of Shogidojo are not only providing
a good online platform to play shogi, but also depending much on the
sitemaster's planning ability and practice.

The current function/contents of Shogidojo available in English are
very limited.

The function/contents which are not available in English are;

    Forums/Bulletin Boards
        Shogi Question Box
        Event forum
        "Daily report of play" forum
        "Club Ryu-o-sen" tournament forum
        "Club Meijin-sen" tournament forum
        "Club Ouza-sen" tournament forum
        "Club Tatsujin-sen" tournament forum
        "Club Oza-sen" forum
        Record room
        Shogidojo software Q&A forum
        Free talking forum

    Kifu database(more than several hundred thousand gamescores)

    Kitajima 5dan(Pro)'s commentary corner

    and many more.

The sitemaster reads every writings in all the forums and writes
by himeself whenever necessary. He often shows up almost every
forum. If there is a sitemaster who uses English and he make the
abovementioned function available in English, Shogidojo will
certainly serve to non Japanese players(Westerners especially)
much better than now.

Larry Kaufuman wrote
> It is free for those outside Japan, though I'm told it's not
>free within Japan.

According to Shogidojo's announcement of 10/18/1999, it has decided
to keep free for those within Japan as well. The sitemaster is sure
he will be able to find sponsors due to the increase of access to
the site.

Manabu





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