From: teruko <teruko <at> PO2 <dot> NSKNET <dot> OR <dot> JP>
Date: 19 sep 1999
Subject: Why work?

Harping on the old theme, by looking at the days on which I receive mail
I can suppose that most of Pieter's subscribers are playing while
working. I have a different schedule so during the pregnant pause I will
take issue with myself. Thinking further about the meaning of the result
and shogi as a social exchange mechanism it did dawn upon me that the
shogi situation of personal expression and faith in one's ideas could be
a competitive environment for some players, there also exist the players
who want to discuss the idea rather than to try to show that they are
"correct". (Whereby we maintain our opponent). This facility, kindly
donated by Pieter, also functions as a sphere within which anyboby can
express and defend their opinion, much like a game of shogi in itself.
Yet rather than discussion we tend to read mail instructing us in the
means of indulging in shogi without having to engage personanally.
Eventually I formed the suspiscion that shogi players chose shogi on
account of an inability to communicate by other means.
The unavoidable truth is that I also am a shogi player.
Posted, yet again, by Michael S.