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 14:13, you wrote:
> > Then there's "Shogi: Japan's Game of Strategy," which uses 3 iii B!
>
> O, yeah. We can end this right now: we'll use Roman numerals! Then we'll
> have two numeric systems, just like in Japan.
> +B7VII-5V  looks *really* cool to me ;)

Or rather greek numerals? That would be alpha for 1, beta for 2,
gamma for three, and so on. Perhaps one could allow to use the
(on keyboards more common) a,b,c etc. for alpha, beta, gamma etc.
(they also historically trace back to them :-) We could then write
B-3c again - but with a different attitude. And don't forget not to number
your moves. It's one of the greatest funs when reading Japanese game scores
that you might not know which position people are commenting and talking
about ...

Edi