From: Edward Strickland <estrickl <at> PEN <dot> K12 <dot> VA <dot> US>
Date: 19 jul 1999
Subject: Re: shogi software

You write:

>      To answer another question, there are two or three database programs
> for shogi on sale in Japan (presumably not as sophisticated as ChessBase,
> but along the same lines), but I was advised that I wouldn't be able to do
> much with them on an English-language machine, other than play thru games
> more or less at random.  Since that can already be done on the free
> Gnu-shogi, I didn't see much point in getting the program.

Would the electronic version of Shogi Nenkan be among those that will not
run well on an English-language machine?