From: Roger Barnes <rogerd <at> PAPALBULL <dot> HI-NET <dot> CO <dot> UK>
Date: 5 feb 2000
Subject: Re: to play shogi on the net

The one time I used a non-kanji set I spent as much time explaining the
moves and pieces (and having to look them up myself) as with a standard set.
Then who-ever learnt with a diagrammatic set has to go through the exercise
again with their first proper set.

----- Original Message -----
From: Adam Atkinson <ghira <at> MISTRAL <dot> CO <dot> UK>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: 05 February 2000 16:08
Subject: Re: to play shogi on the net


> On 05-Feb-00 12:19:46, SalvaAC said:
>
> >It
> >just has been easier to say, "This is what the pieces look like.  I'll
help
> >you learn them."
>
> It's always worked for me, too. During someone's first game they have
> to ask what pieces are, repeatedly. I don't have a problem with that,
> and other people don't seem to either.
>
> --
> Adam Atkinson (ghira <at> mistral <dot> co <dot> uk)
> I am never forget the day I first meet great Lobachevsky. In one
> word he told me secret of success in mathematics: Plagiarise.
>