From: "Dr.Eduard Werner" <edi.werner <at> GMX <dot> DE>
Date: 21 mar 2001
Subject: Re: software

On Wednesday 21 March 2001 16:06, you wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was doing one of my periodic sweeps of things shogi, and I noticed that
> two previously key software programs, Sekita and Oxford-Softworks have not
> updated their sites re their shogi programs in well over a year.

Sekita can be bought now over the internet - I'd call that a major update
since when I wanted to buy it a year ago I simply didn't get any response.

> Or have any details about the Shogi Professional by Oxford - how well it
> plays, what features it has, how many levels, etc? The site has rather
> sketchy info.

Five levels, handicap play, tournament mode. Nice interface, network play,
more or less all you would expect. Lousy at handicap joseki, though. How well
it plays? It plays more or less at my level (slightly better is probably
nearer the mark) and I'm 1-kyu (ELO 1551) so I'd grade it ad-hoc amateur
1-kyu or 1-dan (roughly). I'm still using it and find it very nice. Oxford
Softworks ship extremely fast (after a few hours I had the program to unpack
it; the program can be download from their site).

Hope this helps

Edi