From: "Sam Sloan by way of Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ishipress <dot> com>" <sloan <at> ISHIPRESS <dot> COM>
Date: 22 may 2000
Subject: Re: What is the Logic?

On Sat, 20 May 2000 16:18:10 -0700, "Ken Blake"
<nobody <at> invalid <dot> home <dot> com> wrote:

>Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ishipress <dot> com> wrote in message
>news:39271733.20191071 <at> news <dot> mindspring <dot> com...
>
>> It gave the place as Ramada Inn, Armonk, New York (Tel.:
>> 914-273-9090).
>>
>> The tip-off was the telephone number, which is not a
>number for New
>> York City but for Upstate New York.
>
>
>914 is the area code for Westchester County, the part of New
>York state that is directly north of New York City. Except
>for New York City itself, you can't get more *down*state
>than Westchester County. If you looked at a map of the
>state, you'd see that Armonk is in the southernmost twenty
>percent or so. Very far from "upstate."
>
>

According to my map, Armonk has a population of 2,745.

In order to get there from New York City, one has to drive through a
corner of Connecticut on highway 684.

Early announcements said that the Shogi World Championship would be
held in White Plains. No memtion was made of Armonk.

Armonk is about 10 miles Northeast of North White Plains and North
White Plains provides the closest bus or train stop.

When I complained about the US Shogi Championship being held in
Hoffman Estates, Illinois, the shogi officials threatened to ban me
from competition. I wonder what they will do now that I am complaining
that their "World Championship" was held in an equally remote location
and, even worse, players came from Japan to play, thinking that the
event was being held in New York City.

Sam Sloan