From: Chiaki Ito MAIL COM> Date: 26 nov 2002 Subject: Re: Under-developed software for shogi in English i did. also i have been on yahoo shogi as much as i could in the past days monitering who would come, but i have met only a few... chiaki, x dans, from seattle ----- Original Message ----- From: "Hirobi Yagamuchi" EUROPE COM> To: TECHUNIX TECHNION AC IL> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 6:20 AM Subject: Re: Under-developed software for shogi in English > Gary and other list members: > > Excellent post! I have just fired an email to games-feedback yahoo-inc com as you suggested. Please consider doing the same! The text of my email follows below, feel free to use parts of it. > > ----- > Hello: > > A suggestion: please put a link to your "shogi" game on your "board and tile games" page. There are very few sites on the internet that offer shogi for English speaking people, and yours is one of the few sites. Shogi also has the potential to be much loved by chess players. Since your shogi java is operation, please put a link to that page under the "board and tile games" category on your front page so that people can discover it, and so there will be more users! Thanks for adding shogi to your games site - I know that many shogi fans like myself are very excited about this! > ----- > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "'Gary Whelan'" ENTERMAIL NET> > Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 07:11:03 -0500 > To: SHOGI-L TECHUNIX TECHNION AC IL > Subject: Re: Under-developed software for shogi in English > > > > The reason the yahoo site is always empty is > > because it is not yet linked to "board and tile > > games" on the Yahoo games front page. I once > > wrote them asking if it would be activated any > > time soon and received the following "form > > letter" in response: > > > > >Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Games. > > >Thank you for your comments and suggestions. We > > >are always looking for > > >ways to make Yahoo! Games more useful to our > > >users, and we will be sure to keep your feedback > > >in mind as we continue to make improvements to > > >our > > >service. > > >Thank you again for contacting Yahoo! Customer > > >Care. > > >Regards, > > >Yahoo! Customer Care > > > > I know Yahoo might seem like kids stuff compared > > to ShogiDojo or JavaShogi but if it were active > > it would be the only English language games site > > offering both chess and shogi. It constantly has > > thousands of chess players online. It might be a > > golden opportunity to spread the word about shogi > > and win "converts." After all, isn't this what > > shogi players try to do at their local chess > > clubs? Think of it as a chess club with > > thousands of active members and shogi sets lying > > around waiting to be used! Maybe I'm wrong, > > maybe it will flop, but we'll never know until > > Yahoo activates it. We should all politely ask > > them to get it going. My form letter came from > > games-feedback yahoo-inc com > > > -- > __________________________________________________________ > Sign-up for your own FREE Personalized E-mail at Mail.com > http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > One click access to the Top Search Engines > http://www.exactsearchbar.com/mailcom >