From: Nick Bardsley KEYNOTE CO UK> Date: 11 aug 2000 Subject: Re: Regarding Shogi Impasse > I am reminded of a meeting of the "Preparatory Committee of the World > Xiangqi Association" in Singapore in 1990. [snip...] > So, I think that the rules of shogi should be the same as the > recognized shogi players use and not what some local organizer thinks > that they should be. > > Sam Sloan I am reminded of the typical British Communist Party member who took great pleasure in exercising vicarious authority through a mannered and false deference to Uncle Joe in the 1930s. Primarily, however, I am rubbed up the wrong way by what I think is a rather snide attempt to put somebody down when all they are doing is raising new ideas. I back the NSR rules, but they ain't cast in stone and people are perfectly entitled to use tournament variations if their group agrees to them. Nick