From: mark <markgeez1 <at> HOTMAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 2 dec 1999
Subject: Re: Yahoo!

With regards to shogi on Yahoo, Japan. Yahoo, Japan doesnt have an an online
shogi site. It justs provides links to other online shogi sites.
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Okun <okun <at> ENI <dot> NET>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 2:01 AM
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
>