From: Roger Barnes <rogerd <at> PAPALBULL <dot> HI-NET <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 15 nov 1999
Subject: Re: How is the brain affected

Try some chess - naw - you end up sitting there thinking I'll just swap
bishops to drop them again....

Doubtless there are some really bright sparks who can play both, but not I.

----- Original Message -----
From: Rikard Nordgren <e7rikard <at> ETEK <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: 15 November 1999 12:17
Subject: Re: How is the brain affected


> Hans Kaplan wrote:
> >
> > But to play the same game, with the same simple rules too much, will
> > soon reach the stimul.limit,
> > the braincells and then the personality can even get a bit destroyed
> > from too much stereotype
> > work. Here comes the Shogi in as a "salvation", I think that the
> > chessplayer fastly become stronger
> > after some Shogigames ! The Shogigame gives the brain a real push in the
> > right direction.
> > Its the new, needed type of stimulance that so fast give a result.
> > I also think that things work reverse, if you play much Shogi, try some
> > chessgames sometimes.
>
> Hans Kaplan is very right. But instead of playing Italian chess why
> don't you try the
> shogi variants (Chu or Tenjiku for example) these are very different
> from Shogi and can get you away from the stereotype work.
>
> Rikard Nordgren
>