From: Reijer Grimbergen yz yamagata-u ac jp> Date: 31 aug 2004 Subject: Re: Results from Shogi ESC WOSC 2004 in Munich / Germany Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Save up to 80% on Inkjet & Toner Supplies. 100% Satisfaction=20 Guarantee. Free Shipping on orders over $49. www.inksoutlet.com http://click.topica.com/= caacAsfa2i6YsbnuqMaa/Inksoutlet ------------------------------------------------------------------- Even though (to my knowledge) Sera has never won a national=20 championship, he can be considered at the same level as Kikuta. Both are= =20 members of RICOH, which has dominated company championships in Japan for= =20 a long time. Members include Kikuta, Tanigawa Toshiaki (the brother of)=20 and Noyama (multiple Asahi Amateur Meijin). Sera is always playing in=20 the first team of RICOH, often on a higher board than the big guns=20 mentioned above. He is currently ranked second on the RICOH rating list,= =20 behind Yamada Yoji (who I do not know very well, but has played in a=20 number of national championships, reaching the quarterfinals in last=20 year's amateur Osho tournament). I have been fortunate to be invited to a number of RICOH training=20 weekends and have met Sera often. I have played him a couple of times,=20 but of course never beaten him. I am sure that Kikuta and Sera have=20 played hundreds of times against each other, so it is kind of=20 interesting they play each other in Europe... Reijer Larry Kaufman wrote: >=20 > So who is Tsukasa Sera, who won all nine games, even defeating a 6 D= an? > I note also that apparently there was not a single game won by any > non-Japanese player from any Japanese player. Perhaps Europe will now be = in > the situation we have been in for many years in the U.S., where Japanese > players dominate the top places in our tournaments. >=20 > Larry Kaufman >=20 --=20 Reijer Grimbergen Department of Informatics, Yamagata University Jonan 4-3-16, Yonezawa, 992-8510 Japan Tel: +81-(0)238-26-3740 FAX: +81-(0)238-26-3299 http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/ Your free subscription is supported by today's sponsor: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Need cash fast? Get a $500 CASH ADVANCE overnight! Let=20 YourCashCentral get you the cash you need. http://click.topica.com/= caacxyca2i6YsbnuqMaf/MyOnlinePayday ------------------------------------------------------------------- --^---------------------------------------------------------------- This email was sent to: = shogi-l shogi net EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a2i6Ys.= bnuqMa.= c2hvZ2kt Or send an email to: shogi-unsubscribe topica com For Topica's complete suite of email marketing solutions visit: http://www.topica.com/?p=3DTEXFOOTER --^----------------------------------------------------------------