From: "'Shigeki Masui'" BANET NET> Date: 2 may 2000 Subject: IT Broadcasting of the shogi world championship Believe it or not! You can watch the Shogi World Championship at your home on live on May 20th and 21st. We will broadcast on live the tournament through our own Web Site (www.nyshogi.com) and the special shogi room of Shogi Dojo 24. (www.shogidojo.com), the two-way New York - Japan live broadcasting. "http://www.nyshogi.com/" will launch pictures of the tournament from 9:00am through 8:00pm on May 20th and 21st., updating pictures of live tournament every 1-10 minutes. Sitting at your home, you can see on the screen of your PC the live scenery of the tournament and you will find familiar faces on the screen playing shogi seriously, drinking beer or Japanese tee with a big smile of winning or crying with full of tears losing a game because of Nifu. "http://www.shogidojo/" will show on its special room the "live game" of the final match of the World Championship on May 21st, Sunday 3:00pm New $B!! (BYork Time. Pros will give comments on players'moves, which we hope to show you on the chat. Some good games will also be seen on live on May 20th, Saturday 4:30pm New York Time. Many thanks for Mr. Kume of Shogi Dodo. He has to work without sleeping at 4:00am Japan Time to update the score of the tournament. We believe that this type of worldwide two-way live broadcasting through Interenet operated solely by the club members will be the first ever in the history of IT. Thanks for IT, we can broadcast our tournament through the world by our own net work. You have to change clicking both "nyshogi.com" for pictures and "shogidojo.com" for the live play of shogi championship game. We are very proud to be the members and the pioneer of this epoch making live two-way broadcasting tying traditional shogi with 1,000 years of history and the modern revolution of communication, future of technology, Internet. Best Regards, Shigeki Masui, Executive Director of Communication of the tournament.