From: Daniel Wang <doubter <at> gmail <dot> com>
Date: 13 nov 2005
Subject: Re: Books for non-japanese

I might as well add that there is a nice list of Shogi vocabulary
(including abbreviations used in game scores) at:

http://www.shogi.net/shogivocab/

Tony Hosking's "The Art of Shogi" also has an appendix on reading
Japanese game scores.

The basic form of notation is arabic numeral + japanese numeral +
piece name, so "B3c" is "san san kaku" or "3-3 bishop".

On 11/13/05, Daniel Wang <doubter <at> gmail <dot> com> wrote:
> You don't need to know the Japanese language per se in order to
> understand Japanese notation, so that would make game collections and
> tsume collections rather easily available to you.
>
> I am interested in Japanese books myself, but not sure about the best
> way to acquire them.
>
> -Dan
>