From: "Dr.Eduard Werner" <edi.werner <at> GMX <dot> DE>
Date: 20 mar 2001
Subject: Re: About the name of the pieces

On Tuesday 20 March 2001 10:11, you wrote:
> > > Just use a comma! 1,11 and 11,1 Mathematically appealing.
> >
> > A comma is something. This is a) still a deviation from the Japanese way
> > and b) it's twice as much to write (four characters instead of two).
> >
> > Edi
>
> Then use different notations for chu and shogi or use hex notation
> (A=10, B=11, C=12)
> now we have 1B as 1,11 and B1 as 11,1.

And daidai? I've still a game running. And aren't you playing Tai Shogi?
Why not simply use characters? The Japanese also use *different* sets of signs
for files and ranks. That's the point, not what meaning the signs have.
Remember that they don't have an alphabet in our sense. So I think 1c is much
closer to the Japanese notation than 13. And it's universally usable for all
Shogi variants.

Edi