From: Adam Atkinson <ghira <at> MISTRAL <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 5 feb 2000
Subject: Re: to play shogi on the net

On 05-Feb-00 08:36:25, Jonathan Tisdall said:
>This was not a discussion about the MSO, it was more one about to what
>lengths one might go to teach people, or get a wider range of people
>interested in teaching.

Fair enough.

>For the MSO website, it is possible to allow people to play through games,
>and perhaps eventually have an option on the playing software, to choose an
>"interface" (piece set) that they find simpler, since in virtual space what
>they prefer has no impact on anyone else.

Absolutely. I have no problem with this. Good idea.

>The beauty about virtual space is
>that one's opponent can play chess with a Gothic Disney set on day-glo
>colored squares without anyone being offended.

Absolutely. Though "inconvenienced" is the word I would use. (Does
anybody _really_ use the 3d view in chess programs, I wonder?)

>As I said, I have never understood the point that putting an extra step in
>the way of learning to play with the real pieces

same here. Though if I were to learn Tai Shogi, which I never plan to
do, I have an awful feeling I'd always have to have a list of pieces
and moves next to me, whether I used Japanese symbols or not.

>This is a survey, the MSO will not have any
>unorthodoxy, except perhaps in the beginner's event.

Super.

--
Adam Atkinson (ghira <at> mistral <dot> co <dot> uk)
GIANT WAVES DOWN QUEEN MARY'S FUNNEL