From: Stuart Patterson <stuart <at> HIPPOCAMPUS <dot> SCREAMING <dot> NET>
Date: 5 sep 2000
Subject: MSO

Unfortunately for myself, I was only able to attend the MSO Shogi event for
one day (Thursday) as a spectator.  One of the reasons for not entering the
tournaments was that I consider myself to be particularly weak in my Shogi
playing strength.  Ater discussing this with various people at the
tournament, I think I'm convinced that I will attempt to enter some of the
competitions at next year's MSO.

In relation to this and Chiaki Ito's comment on tutoring 1 Dan players, I
wonder if any of you have any suggestions how I can increase my Shogi
playing strength?  At present I have Tony Hosking's book 'The Art of Shogi'
which I'm working my way through, but as previously mentioned, teaching
yourself from a book cannot compare to one-to-one tutoring.

I currently play almost all my Shogi matches on the ShogiDojo site (name
'Stuart') and wondered whether anyone would be prepared to give me a little
of their time to enhance my Shogi playing ability.  I live in England and I
am currently rated as 14k, although it does fluctuate widly.

If anyone is prepared to spend a bit of time sharing their knowledge of
Shogi with me, please drop me a line.

Thanks in advance.

Stu