From: George Jost HOTMAIL COM> Date: 30 jul 1999 Subject: Please recommend books Hi. a) Do you know about the Japanese Tsume Magazine "Tsumeshogi Paradise"? See Patrik's WWW site for more details (http://www.vega.or.jp/~patrick/shogi/ladder/paradise.html). This magazines all about tsume problems: Tsumeshogi Paradise Number 5 Tabuchi Building 2F Temma 3-7-8 Kita-ku Osaka 530 Japan Sample issue 800 yen (mention Tsumeshogi Challenge) 6 months 4800 yen One year 9600 yen b) Also there are lots of Tsume links on the WWW. There are several sites most of which are accessible from Pieter's WWW page http://users.iol.it/stouten/shogi.html c) Also are you aware about the Art of Shogi which goes into alot of detail about Shogi strategy and is in english? This is highly recommended by many on the list and is considered good even for dan level players ... http://homepage.virgin.net/skp.stratford/index.html I hope this helps. Others will be able to mention actual Japanese books. I gather there are tons of them. George :) President and co-founder of the Ottawa-Hull Shogi club. >>>Pekka K. Writes ... . I would like to get my hands on a few good Japanese shogi books. Specifically I would be interested in a good collection of tsume problems. ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com