From: Chiaki Ito <shogi <at> MAIL <dot> COM>
Date: 28 jul 2000
Subject: English sites on the Shogi Dojo 24

Dear Shogi Lovers,

This is Chiaki Ito writing from Bangkok, Thailand.  It was very nice to
know many of you in this mailing list at the World Shogi Tournament, in New
York, back in May.

Now, I am very happy to inform you that I have been appointed as a
translation and foreign correspondent officer for the online Shogi site,
the Shogi Club 24. (http://www.shogidojo.com/eng/engindex.htm).

Recently, the Club 24 has become more serious about improving its English
contents to make it easier for non-Japanese Shogi players to play there
because the Dojo hopes to help non-Japanese players to enjoy the same
contents as the Japanese players.

In fact, there have been a number of tournaments and interesting events on
the Dojo over the last few years.  This includes several kinds of routine
round robin tournaments, team tournaments, lessons and analysis given by
professionals, and so forth.  Unfortunately, many of them in the past have
been limited only to Japanese players or players with Japanese proficiency.

However, as more and more non-Japanese players are logged in the Club 24,
and Shogi is getting increasingly popular outside Japan, the Club 24 has
realized that its English sites should also be compatible with the Japanese
sites.  It may take some time to improve all Enligish pages, but we will
try our best.

For this, I really appreciate if you could suggest what kind of specific
improvements I should make for the English contents on the Club 24.  Or if
you notice any English mistake or come up with good ideas that you, as
non-native speaker of Japanese, think will improve to attract more people
outside Japan, please feel free to email me or post it here on this list.

By the way, my handle name on the Club 24 is "wisc-thai".  If you find me
by chance, feel free to talk to me!

Thank you

Chiaki Ito

shogi <at> mail <dot> com
http://www.shogidojo.com/eng/engindex.htm