From: Hans Geuns <geuns <at> FAS <dot> HARVARD <dot> EDU>
Date: 29 may 2000
Subject: Re: News from Shogi World Championship

The Shogi World Championship was one of the most pleasant and best
organized tournaments I ever participated in. So I can only agree with
Doug Dysart's enthusiastic report and with Shigeki Masui remarks: as far
as I'm concerned it also was a splendid success. It was also very nice to
see some of my old European Shogi friends again, and to meet a few new
Shogi players for the first time.

When, a few weeks before the tournament, I saw on the NY Shogi Club
website that the venue was in Armonk, I was a little bit worried about the
way to get there from JFK Airport. But Mr. Masui took care of that: he
sent a van to the airport to pick me and my wife up and he made sure that
the cost would not be too much. The same van had been shuttling to and
from the airport all day to pick up arriving players. On the whole the
organization of the tournament was excellent and I'm sure that all
participants and visitors had a great weekend.


Hans Geuns-Meyer
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On Wed, 24 May 2000, 'Shigeki Masui' wrote:

> The Tournament has ended with great success.
...


> The tournament committee will wait for the comments of the players who
> actually participated in the tournament as it is the most important for
> the tournament committee rather than the misleading comments about the
> location of the tournament made by a couple of none participants.
>
>
> The tournament acknowledge that as of May 21, 2000 Mr. Katsumasa Egoshi
> is the strongest amateur shogi player outside of Japan and that he is
> invited to the Amateur Ryuo-Sen in 2001.
> Shigeki Masui, Executive Director of the communication of the
> tournament.
>