From: kaissa <at> lycos <dot> com
Date: 20 nov 2003
Subject: RE: Shogi Server

I play xiangqi online and would love to play shogi too but none of the shogi servers I tried work for me. Please if you decide to program a shogi server make sure it can be used also from behind a firewall.

Jouni Tolonen

>Hi all,
>
>I'm a chessplayer from Australia. My friend and I 
>enoy writing chess 
>engines, especially those that play wild 
>variants. We were looking at 
>writing a chess server at some stage, but the 
>internet already seems to 
>have a glut of chess servers, and unless we 
>produce a finished product 
>that is better than anything else available at 
>the moment, the project 
>would naturally fail. We were quite surprised at 
>the fact that there 
>doesn't appear to be a shogi server on the net at 
>the moment. There may 
>well be ones in Japan, but we cannot find them, 
>nor would we be able to 
>understand them if we did. I was wondering what 
>your thoughts are on a 
>shogi server that had a nice graphical interface 
>with timestamp 
>included, something quite similar to ICC 
>(chessclub.com). Are people 
>looking for something like this? Would it be 
>worth our while to produce 
>it? Are there many people who would be willing to 
>help out with 
>administrative duties once the site was up and 
>running? Would it be 
>capable of getting more than 100 players online 
>at once? Would people 
>like to run their shogi engines on it? I'd be 
>interested in hearing all 
>your thoughts on these matters, and others, if 
>you'd like to share them 
>with me. I've only just recently discovered Shogi 
>and I quite like it. I 
>find it's quite similar to the chess variant 
>crazyhouse. Hopefully there 
>is potential for a decent server for this 
>interesting game.
>
>Tim


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