From: Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM>
Date: 18 may 1999
Subject: Re: First St Petersburg Shogi Tournament

I just looked at this site, which is at
http://underworld.fortunecity.com/caterpillar/963/ . It is really excellent.

I recommend it strongly.

I see that Miss Irina Novikov, after her trips to the four corners of the
Earth, has made it back to her Russia and is spreading shogi there, even
without sufficient sets and boards.

The game presented is not the strongest I must admit (I played it over) but
what do you expect from a 12-year-old girl who perhaps does not even have a
proper shogi set.

Congratulations to Galina Shpileva, age 12!

Sam Sloan

PS I will put a link to it from my page at http://www.samsloan.com/novikov.htm