From: Adam Marquis <adam.marquis <at> gmail <dot> com>
Date: 6 jun 2005
Subject: PolymathGames.com - Play Shogi and Minishogi

About a month ago I decided to set up a web server to emulate
play-by-mail play for board games. I wanted it to be for board games
in general what <a href=3D"http://www.dragongoserver.net">Dragon Go
Server</a> is for Go: a clean, graphical interface that took care of
dirty work like the rules and passing moves between players. I was on
a Shogi kick at the time, so the first games I implemented were Shogi
and Minishogi. I figured the folks on this mailing list would be
interested in trying it out. Right now it is a little rough; it can
detect checkmate and blocks illegal moves and drops, but has a little
bit of trouble with stalemate. I hope to correct that in the next
couple of days. In any case, if you'd like to try it out, it is set up
at <a href=3D"http://www.polymathgames.com">www.polymathgames.com</a>.
I'm also looking for comments, if you have them, on my <a
href=3D"http://www.polymathgames.com/shogirules.php">Shogi rules
page</a>. It is also a little rough, and was just meant to get people
ready to play a game of minishogi but took on a life of its own.

One last note: The site right now only has my personal friends and
myself playing on it. My love of shogi, unfortunately, does not make
me any good at it. If you want to play against somebody good you'll
probably have to bring a friend.

Well, thanks in advance for any comments you folks will have, because
I really want the site to play well.

~Adam J. Marquis