From: Yoshi Niwata <yokoyoko <at> SEA <dot> UCATV <dot> NE <dot> JP>
Date: 27 dec 2002
Subject: Re: International Shogi Club

Dear Sylvain,

Thank you very much for your kind feedback!

Starting point to organize this club was TOKYO Shogi Forum held in November
and we enjoyed shogi so much with many other country players. However, this
kind of event is held only once three years and we thought that we wanted to
"enjoy" shogi internationally more in our daily life. That's the simple
reason to start and our choice was to use an internet shogi club (shogi
DOJO) which had many good points !! free to play, no travel, easy to gather
etc.

Concerning teaching & learning support in our club, we realize there is a
need to support especially starters/beginners who are struggling at 10-15kyu
in shogi club 24  or intermediate players who want to improve more. One
French guy asked our member to instruct shogi through e-mail shogi !  Most
of them have various kinds of difficulties to learn shogi (time limitation,
long distance, less shogi friends in neighbor etc.) and we hope our support
could give some help for their shogi enjoyment. Obviously, it is a good fun
for us, too to play shogi with them.

Therefore, Enjoy & Support are appropriate key words to explain our club and
we think it is proven through a friendly match with Russia, a monthly game
and instruction games which were conducted in last two months.

Of course our site is prepared by English and Kanso-sen (review the game) is
done by English to communicate with you internationally.


We do hope we can play with you on the net in near future.


Sincerely,


Yoshi Niwata (Leader of ISC)



> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Shogi Discussion List [mailto:SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL]
> On Behalf Of Sylvain Ferrieres
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 2:46 AM
> To: SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL
> Subject: Re: International Shogi Club
>
>
> This site is going to be THE site for shogi players enable to read
> Japanese ! (humm.. "one of the greatest.." would be more diplomatic)
> Thank you all for spreading this wonderful game over the whole world..
> Ok, Shogi still stays a "war" game but this kind of action,
> especially in these times of fears and despair, keeps me confident
> in a friendly and peaceful solution against cultural differences.
>
> Merry Christmas to everyone !
> Sylvain.
>
> PS: I see trees of green, red roses too...
>