From: Larry Kaufman <lkaufman <at> WIZARD <dot> NET>
Date: 19 jul 1999
Subject: Re: shogi software

-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Strickland <estrickl <at> PEN <dot> K12 <dot> VA <dot> US>
To: SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Date: Monday, July 19, 1999 11:26 AM
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?

     I don't know, but probably so.  You would probably be able to look at
games, but would be unable to select them or perhaps even to tell who was
playing.

Larry