From: Marco Durante <Marco.Durante <at> NA <dot> INFN <dot> IT>
Date: 1 feb 1999
Subject: Re: Beginner Question

Steven Walters wrote:
>
>  My questions are these... Where can I buy a Shogi Board?

In New York there is an excellent shop, "Your move chess& games". They
have a lot of shogi sets. You can visit the shop at:

http://www.icdchess.com/

Alternatively..... ask some friends in Japan!

>
> Also, Is the program Master Shogi worth getting? I think it would be good
> for me to play the computer for practice. I downloaded a couple of Shogi
> computer programs and have been playing a few games. I have Shogi Variants
> V1.55 and it seems pretty good. I have also ordered the book Shogi for
> Beginners by John Fairbairn.

Thre is a lot of freeware programs which I think are quite suitable for
a beginner. You can find a good collection at the URL:

http://www.ping.be/pmoerman/Shogi/cyber-shogi.html

>
> One last question... The players at Little Tokyo Said that gold or silver
> (not sure which) could not move into f4 and f6 is this a normal rule?
>

?????? There must be something wrong here.....

All the best,

Marco D.
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