From: Shogi Future <shogifuture <at> YAHOO <dot> COM>
Date: 31 dec 2002
Subject: Re: Happy New Year!

HAPPY NEW YEAR MARTIN!

I am in St.Petersburg, Russia now visiting my family.

Before leaving USA, I was teaching shogi and go with
my two friends at the ANIME convention in New Jersey.
http://www.geocities.com/shogifuture/journey/animenext.html
we were suppose to teach for 2 hours only.  but
attendies liked it so much that we were teaching
during all the hours of the convention for 3 days in
the row!!!

keep in touch,
best,
        irina - shogiPrincess.(^^)

--- DANERUD MARTIN <martin.danerud <at> TELIA <dot> COM> wrote:
> Dear shogi friends,
>
> I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year!
> I would also like to mention a few other things to
> you:
>
> 1) Participate in Stockholm Open! In the middle of
> the cold winter the
> Queen of Lake Malaren opens her warm arms to all of
> us who long for
> some hours with good friends at the shogi board.
> There will be some
> strong players. Join us!
>
> STOCKHOLM OPEN 2003
>
> Welcome to the fourth Stockholm Open.
>
> Round          Date                    Time
>
> 1              Saturday January 11     10.00
> 2              Saturday January 11     14.00
> 3              Saturday January 11     18.00
> 4              Sunday January 12       09.00
> 5              Sunday January 12       12.30
> 6              Sunday January 12       16.00
>
> The prize giving ceremony will be directly after the
> end of the last
> game.
>
> Personal registration: Saturday January 11 at 09.30.
>
> Thinking time:  30 min + 60 sec byo-yomi.
>
> Where to play: Stockholms Schacksalonger,
> Brannkyrkagatan 65 (T-station
> Mariatorget) in Stockholm.
>
> Where to stay: Zinkensdamms Vandrarhem, Zinkensvagen
> 20, Tel: +46 8
> 6168100.
> Zinkensdamms Hotel, Zinkensvagen 20, Tel: +46 8
> 6168110.
>
> Free lodging can be arranged at the venue both
> Friday and Saturday
> night (bring a sleeping bag and a portable
> mattress).
>
> Participation fee: 100 SEK.
>
> Prizes: Depending on the number of participants.
>
> Pre-registration and information:
>       Tord Juntti,  Tel: +46 8 7509791, e-mail:
> tord.juntti <at> stockholm <dot> mail <dot> telia <dot> com
>       Thore Ångqvist, Tel: +46 8 6476293, e-mail:
> thore.angqvist <at> chello <dot> se
>
> 2) This is the Swedish shogi calendar 2003:
>
> January 11-12   Stockholm Open
> February 22-23  Trollhattan Open
> April 5-6       Swedish Championship tournament,
> Goteborg
> May 29-June 1   Swedish Championship play-off,
> Linkoping
> June 14-15      Swedish Team Championship,
> Norrkoping
> July 26         Shogi in Slottsskogen, Goteborg
> August 7-10     ESC/WOSC at Ockero (a detailed
> invitation will be sent
>                 out in the beginning of 2003 after
> some key decisions
>                 by FESA)
>
> 3) The most important Swedish shogi events during
> 2002 (my personal
> choice):
> * Sweden is number three in the team competition at
> the 2nd ISF, Tokyo
> * Thore Angqvist becomes the first ever to defend
> his Championship title
> * Carl Johan Nilsson scores six out of nine and is
> number six at WOSC
> * With 26 participants there is a new record of
> Swedes playing shogi at
> the first Swedish Team Championship
>
> What about 2003?
>
> I wish you a Happy New Year!
>
> Martin Danerud
>
> President of the Swedish Shogi Federation


=====

No man is useless who has a friend, and if we are loved we are
indispensable. -Robert Louis Stevenson, novelist, essayist, and poet
(1850-1894)




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