From: "'Shigeki Masui'" BANET NET> Date: 16 may 2000 Subject: News - Shogi World Championship Rehearsal of IT Broad Casting was very successful. Over 900 people watched the rehearsal. Please watch the live broad casting of the world championship on http://www.nyshogi.com/ and http://shogidojo.com/ This is US and Japan two way broad casting cooperated by Shogi Club 24. You can join in the chat with live analysis by professionals on the final championship match on May 21 (Sunday) 3:30pm and some of the good matches on May 20 (Saturday) 3:30pm. NY Shogi HP will be sending pictures of the tournament all day long since May 20 Saturday afternoon New York Time). Daily Access to NY HP has reached over 1,900 and will soon hit 2,000/Day. We are very exited that about 2,000 viewers are watching our HP everyday. Many thanks to you, if you are one of the viewers of our HP. IF not please click http://nyshogi.com/, you will find more fresh news. One More News! 263 shogi players from 20 countries and associations participated in the qualifying tournaments of the Shogi World Championship. Except Brazil, most of the regular shogi players outside Japan participated in the tournament. In case of Brazil 20 top players participated in the qualifying match out of total about 700 members. Regards Shigeki Masui