From: Saul May <saulm <at> QWEST <dot> NET>
Date: 21 sep 2001
Subject: Re: Shogi on Palm!

Stockholm, Sweden.
The 2001 Nobel Prize For Programming goes to ...
Ralf Lundberg!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Lundberg" <ralf <at> CS <dot> CHALMERS <dot> SE>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Friday, September 21, 2001 1:04 AM
Subject: Shogi on Palm!


> No, I do not have a program that plays shogi on Palm. Sorry:-(
>
> What I do have is a program that acts as a Shogi board on Palm OS
> devices. And at least for me that is quite useful to.
>
> I plan to use it in the following cases:
>  * To keep the state of email, and interrupted, games.
>  * To follow the moves in shogi books between the diagrams.
>  * To walk through pro games etc.
>  * As a tool to write kifu while playing standard games.
>  * And of course to play on when no real board is available.
>
> Beside the game view, there is also a database view where you can
> handle games you have entered.
>
> The main advantages over a traditional pocketable shogi board is:
>  * You can keep multiple games in parallell
>  * You can easily scroll back and forth among the moves entered
>  * You can save and print the kifus
>
> Read more about Shogi Board, as I call it, and see two screenshots:
>
>   http://www.cd.chalmers.se/~ralf/palm/shogib.html
>
> The program is available for download. To make it a little more
> interesting I have also included an initial database with a few
> of the most recent pro games Reijer Grimbergen has submitted in
> Shukan Shogi. (Thanks Reijer! Also thanks for making Spear available!)
>
> Enjoy!
>
>    Ralf.
>
> (The program is written in Pocket-C, a native(!) C compiler for PalmOS.)
>
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