From: "Daniel V. Francis" <d.and.k <at> SURFLINE <dot> NE <dot> JP>
Date: 14 mar 2002
Subject: Re: Middle Shogi Manual 2002

Dear Mr. Hodges
    I hope this finds you well and happy. I would like any information that
you can supply about you two CD manuals; especially price. Thank you for
your future assistance.

                            Yours Truly

                             Daniel Francis


----- Original Message -----
From: "George Hodges" <george.hodges <at> TALK21 <dot> COM>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 4:31 PM
Subject: Middle Shogi Manual 2002


> I should like to announce the immediate publication of the 2002 edition of
> my MIDDLE SHOGI MANUAL.
>
> This Manual, first published in March 1993, has been regularly updated
over
> the years by various supplements. All these updates and corrections have
now
> been incorporated into the new publication and the chapter on strategy has
> now also been slightly lengthened, with the addition of two more items
from
> the pen of Wayne Schmittberger.
> The MIDDLE SHOGI MANUAL 2002 (119 pages A4) is available either in a
> loose-leaf format (laser-printed A4), to enable purchasers to bind or not,
> to their own taste, or it may be ordered on a CD ROM in pdf format.
>
> "TEN SHOGI VARIANTS" (128 pages A4) is also released at the same time as a
> companion publication to the Middle Shogi Manual. This includes the
initial
> positions, rules of play and the moves of the pieces for the following
> variants:-
>
> TORI  - WA  -  HEIAN-DAI  -  DAI
> TENJIKU  -  DAI-DAI  -  MAKA-DAI-DAI
> TAI  -  TAI-KYOKU  and  YONIN (the modern four-handed game).
>
> This publication has been principally taken from the individual "How to
>  Play" leaflets, which were first published by me in the 1980s, but also
> includes the quite enormous variant TAI-KYOKU SHOGI, the piece moves of
> which have only relatively recently come to light in Japan. Additional
> material, re-printed from SHOGI magazine, has also been added to the
chapter
> on Tori Shogi.
> This companion volume is likewise available either in A4 loose-leaf
printed
> format or on a CD ROM in pdf format.
>
> For further details please contact me either by e-mail or by post to P.O.
> Box 77
> BROMLEY Kent BR1 4ZG England or by Tel/Fax: +44 (0)20 8466 6564.
>
> George Hodges
>