From: DANERUD MARTIN TELIA COM> Date: 15 feb 2003 Subject: Interesting games in the Internet match Dear shogi friends, ISC (Japan) won the friendly Internet match today against Sweden. The final result was Sweden 1 - ISC (Japan) 12. Congratulations ISC! Some ISC players were really strong amateurs. The Swedish team was offered handicap games, but stubbornly my players wanted to play hirate games. I think that it was a good decision. In several games it was not possible to see that the difference between the players was >400 ELO points. My hypothesis is that the Swedish players are still developing... The biggest hero among the fighting Swedes was Jonas Ahlqvist, who won against a player with 758 ELO points more than Jonas. You can go through the games at http://www.shogidojo.com Book List (Kifu): Osaka Dojo Register and look at any game Results: Sweden ISC No. HN Rating Grade No. HN Rating Grade Res 1 CalvinB 1525 1k 1 PUN-CHAN 2272 4D 0-1 2 Astarte 1455 1k 2 Futoyan 2213 4D 0-1 3 diogenes 1319 3k 3 Heineken 1734 2D 0-1 4 Djoser 1300 3k 4 tominaganakamoto 1723 2D 0-1 5 Ahlqvist 854 7k 5 w1allen 1612 1D 1-0 6 Sewart 723 9k 6 yuki_70s 1559 1D 0-1 7 tseusi 597 10k 7 Kenkenpapa 1343 3k 0-1 8 styggve 348 13k 8 bohebohe 1174 4k 0-1 9 apelsinjos 323 13k 9 Daruma78 1035 6k 0-1 10 m31m13 152 14k 10 boggy42 1009 6k 0-1 11 steel_tormentor 0 Bg 11 kabayan 801 8k 0-1 12 Therin 0 Bg 12 y.sanada 601 10k 0-1 13 Desdichado 0 Bg 13 yumiya_a 641 10k 0-1 Match result: 1-12 Best regards, Martin Danerud Swedish team manager