From: Pieter Stouten <stouten <at> SHOGI <dot> NET>
Date: 16 jun 2000
Subject: 74 entries in European Championship/MSO Worldwide Championship!

The MSO 2000 Shogi Festival is still over two months away and already
we have 74 confirmed registrations just for the main event
(ESC/MSOWSC)!

Germany: 13
France: 10
Netherlands: 10
Sweden: 9
USA: 8
Japan: 6
Norway: 6
Russia: 5
Great Britain: 2
Austria: 2
Belgium: 2
Italy: 1
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Total: 74

The Shogi Festival also gets the most luxurious room in the Alexandra
Palace, the 216 square metres Londesborough Room, "decorated to a
very high standard in Italian Renaissance style."