From: "'Shigeki Masui'" <smasui <at> BANET <dot> NET>
Date: 22 mar 2000
Subject: News Flash - Shogi World Championship

The Committee of The Tournament decided to invite following three (3)
Champions of 1999 to New York as the Special Invitees.
EUROPEAN CHAMPION: Mr.Arend van Oosten, Netherlands.
USA CHAMPION: Mr. Yoshihisa Suzuki(New York)
WORLD SHOGI FORUM CHAMPION (Runner Up): Mr. Larry Kaufman (Washington
D.C.)
Note: The Champion, Mr. Hayashi is living in Japan and the Committee
decided to invite the runner up Mr. Kaufman.
Germany: German Shogi Championship and Qualifying Tournament for
Deutscheland were held together.  Mr. Kei Ichiyanagi won the ticket to
New York. Mr. Boris Mirnik won the German Championship.
Hong Kong opened Qualifying Tournament: Winner is Mr. Kisao Ichihara
The Winner of Los Angeles is Mr. Takushi Asada, 15 years old.
Finland succeeded to open the tournament on April 8th in Oulu. Pleas
contact to Mr. Jouni Tolonen (jtol <at> rieska <dot> oulu <dot> fi).

Invitees to New York:
     BRAZIL: Katsumasa Egoshi
     FRANCE: Guillaume Schmidt
    GERMANY: Kei Ichiyanagi
  HONG KONG: Kisao Ichihara
   MALAYSIA: Chuichiro Yamada
NETHERLANDS: Marc Theeuwen
     NORWAY: Terje Christoffersen
   THAILAND: Chiaki Ito
EUROPEAN CHAMPION: Arend van Oosten (Netherlands)
     USA CHAMPION: Yoshihisa Suzuki (New York)
WORLD SHOGI FORUM RUNNER UP: Larry Kaufman (Washington D.C)

Countries scheduled qualifying tournament:
     Russia: April 1-2
Mid America: April 1 (Mid West Shogi Championship)
     Sweden: April 7 (Swedish Shogi Championship)
    Finland: April 8
   New York: April 8
    Britain: May 8 (British Open Championship)

More News: Look at the News Flash on HP of http://www.nyshogi.com
You are all welcome to New York!
Please come and enjoy the largest tournament ever held outside of Japan.
REGISTER to: smasui <at> banet <dot> net
Looking forward to seeing you in New York.
Shigeki Masui, Executive Director of The Shogi World Championship