From: Eduard Werner <edi.werner <at> gmx <dot> de>
Date: 17 may 2005
Subject: Re: Turn based shogi?

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Wutoru 17 meje 200515:06, fat cyclop pisa=C5=A1e:
> 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
> opportunities to play over the board (too much work, to few opponents
> where I live). So I turned  to internet. Yahoo and similar online
> servers were not for me. First of all there was a technical problem: my
> computer is behind a firewall and the applets
> couldn't connect to the server. Then there is time problem: the servers
> required to be online for quite a time non-stop. I have similar problems
> 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
> www.gameknot.com, www.schemingmind.com. Games played there are much like
>
> correspondence chess. You log on to the server, browse through your
> games, look
> at the positions, analyse them, see if there is any game awating for
> your move
> and make it when appriopriate. All the communication is HTTP only so
> there is no
> firewall problem.
>
> And there go the time controls. On gameknot.com you can set them on x
> days per
> move, on schemingmind.com for y days for entire game. Very convinient
> when you
> have little time.
>
> Finally I get to my question: woud this kind of game pace be acceptable
> for internet
> shogi community? I have read that most of shogi games are played withi
> byo-yomi
> system. Wouldn't it be "against tradition"? Can you tell me if it would
> be
> convinient for you to have this kind of shogi server?

Have you tried Richard's PBeM server on www.gamerz.net? It's email-based an=
d=20
very comfortable to use.

Edi

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