From: fat cyclop <gruby_karol <at> poczta <dot> onet <dot> pl>
Date: 17 may 2005
Subject: Turn based shogi?

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I am new to shogi (still ;-) ). I have some questions in this area.
One of them is about turn based shogi.

Little explanation. I am a chess amateur who doesn't have much=20
opportunities to play over the board (too much work, to few opponents=20
where I live). So I turned  to internet. Yahoo and similar online=20
servers were not for me. First of all there was a technical problem: my=20
computer is behind a firewall and the applets=20
couldn't connect to the server. Then there is time problem: the servers=20
required to be online for quite a time non-stop. I have similar problems=
=20
with Shogi Club 24. I can't use it because of the firewall.


Fortunatelly for me I found so called turn based game servers like=20
www.gameknot.com, www.schemingmind.com. Games played there are much like=
=20

correspondence chess. You log on to the server, browse through your=20
games, look=20
at the positions, analyse them, see if there is any game awating for=20
your move=20
and make it when appriopriate. All the communication is HTTP only so=20
there is no=20
firewall problem.

And there go the time controls. On gameknot.com you can set them on x=20
days per=20
move, on schemingmind.com for y days for entire game. Very convinient=20
when you=20
have little time.=20

Finally I get to my question: woud this kind of game pace be acceptable=20
for internet=20
shogi community? I have read that most of shogi games are played withi=20
byo-yomi=20
system. Wouldn't it be "against tradition"? Can you tell me if it would=20
be=20
convinient for you to have this kind of shogi server?

Regards,
Fat Cyclop

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