From: Brian Wald <bwald <at> INTERLOG <dot> COM>
Date: 22 jan 2002
Subject: Canadian Shogi Federation

Hello:

On November 29, 2001, I asked Shogi-L members about shogi players in the
Toronto area.  Fortunately, I received some replies; however, I did not
receive many responses from Toronto residents.

Two players, both from the USA, explained to me that they have spoken to
Toronto shogi players and have heard of informal shogi gatherings in
Toronto.  I made the effort to call the Japanese Consulate (Toronto
office), the Japanese Cultural Centre of Toronto, and the Japan
Foundation for information about shogi.  Unfortunately, employees of
these three institutions could not help me (incidentally, I phoned each
place twice), although one of them said a Go club existed a few years
ago but is no longer meeting.

If anybody knows of any shogi players in Toronto, or elsewhere in Canada
for that matter, please let me know, as I wish to form a Toronto Shogi
Club once I have enough members.  In the meantime, Tanase Yasushi (of
Edmonton) and I have designed a very simple website to promote shogi in
Canada and facilitate the creation of shogi clubs here:

http://www.platz.jp/~tanase/csf/csf.html

(All programming credit thus far goes to Tanase -- if you wish to learn
more about him, please see the Computer Shogi Association website.)  Of
course, our website is simple for now and we wish to add to it in the
future.  Any and all suggestions are most welcome; also, hopefully shogi
institutions and clubs around the world will be willing to make the
Canadian Shogi Federation a link from their pages... with luck, maybe
more potential Canadian shogi players will contact us this way.

Finally, we wish to officially register the CSF as a shogi federation.
What is the easiest way to accomplish this goal?  Thanks in advance for
any responses.

Sincerely, Brian Wald