From: Rikard Nordgren <e7rikard <at> ETEK <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
Date: 20 mar 2001
Subject: Re: About the name of the pieces

"Dr.Eduard Werner" wrote:
>
> 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

Well it is possible to extend to tai using the eikosapental numbersystem
but my
proposal is to use numerals for shogi and the alphanumeric system for
the larger variants.

Rikard