From: Larry Kaufman <lkaufman <at> COMCAST <dot> NET>
Date: 14 oct 2002
Subject: Re: How to play shogi on the web?

----- Original Message -----
From: "bogin" <bogin <at> YAHOO <dot> CO <dot> JP>
To: <SHOGI-L <at> TECHUNIX <dot> TECHNION <dot> AC <dot> IL>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2002 6:20 PM
Subject: Re: How to play shogi on the web?


> Yahoo! doesn't have a handicap hames function that I'm aware of but the
> other 2 sites do. You can only play handicap games in the free mode on
> Shogi Club 24 so none of those games are rated. You can play rated
handicap
> games on Java Shogi if you can find an opponent.

> Bill Gaudry
>
     Could you possibly explain to us the way handicap games are rated on
Java Shogi?  I ask primarily because we rate handicap games on the
Pan-Atlantic rating system, and I'd like to compare methods.

      Thanks, Larry Kaufman