From: Eduard Werner <edi.werner <at> GMX <dot> DE>
Date: 12 jul 2002
Subject: Re: Hi, new guy here

> I hope this list is still active.

Seems so ...

> Is there a way to play live over the internet?  I know
> yahoo Japan has shogi, but I can't get an account with
> them for some reason.  I can get one with Yahoo Asia,
> but there's no shogi there... :(

Someone already mentioned www.shogidojo.com

> Also, can someone help me with Gnu-shogi?  I have the
> program and can play it just fine, but being
> completely text based it's a little hard to see what's
> going on.  If I understand correctly, teh associated
> archive "xshogi(something).tar" contains a graphic
> interface to use to play against the gnu-shogi
> computer opponent.  But I downloaded that archive and
> extracted it, and haven't a clue what to do with all
> those files.  Anyone know?  Or have I completely
> misunderstood the purpose of the file?

If you have a new gnushogi (that's 1.3) it comes with xshogi in the
first place. If you have an older one (<=1.2) it does not. Xshogi is a
graphical interface for X-Windows, so if you are not a unix/linux/BSD user
you can stop reading here and throw it away. Otherwise, you enter the
archive directory and read the instructions. Usually it's either:

./configure
make all
make install

provided there is a "configure" script (there is with gnushogi 1.3)
or if there's  a file "Imakefile" you do

xmkmf -a
make all
make install

For linux and BSD, almost every distribution contains precompiled files somewhere.
On a recent machine, gnushogi plays pretty decently.

Hope this helps

Edi