Shanghai Shogi

[Oliver]

Dear shogi friends,


this year the first Chinese player - Zhang Xin - was admitted to the
"Shoreikai" - the professional Shogi school in Japan. Shogi therefore
again got a big boost in Shanghai.

See
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/arts/news/20100826p2g00m0et067000c.html
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20100827a8.html
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/chinese-boy-qualifies-to-train-to-become-professional-shogi-player


There are also news from China that the Yingde Cup will be organized
again in December this year.

There will be a team and an individual event.
The time table is as follows:

December 3, 2010 Arrival in Shanghai
December 4, 2010 International Friendship Party with Shogi events
December 5, 2010 Team and Individual Shogi tournament - "Yingde
Cup"
Decmeber 6, 2010 Sightseeing, end of tour

A team consists of 3 players per country and each country also
nominates the individual players.

For 3 players per country the organizers will pay the costs for hotel
and meals. In addition they provide an air ticket subsidy up to a
certain amount for each team from overseas.

We will try to find out more information.

Regards

Frank Rövekamp & Oliver Orschiedt

[Oliver]

Dear Shogi friends,

as you already know, the Yingde-Cup will take place again in December
2010.
We have now received further information that we would like to forward
to you.

Each national association can nominate a team consisting of three
players for the team competition.

Each national association can provide one or more (to be confirmed)
participants for the individual tournament. These can also be
participants of the team, but they don't necessarily have to.

Up to three players will receive free lodging and meals from Friday
noon (Dec 3, 2010) until Monday morning (Dec. 6, 2010). Other
accompanying persons have to bear their expenses themselves.

Each participating national association will get an air ticket subsidy
of 500 US$ for the whole team regardless of the numbers of
participants.

The application has to be forwarded to us by the national association,
as the shogi organization in Shanghai asked us to facilitate the
participation by European teams and players. We would like to ask you
to tell us *as soon as possible*, which national association wants to
send a delegation to Shanghai. The names of the nominated players can
be forwarded at a later stage. Germany ans Austria already decided to
send players!

Please also note that we only can try to optimize the exchange of
information between Shanghai and the Western Shogi nations. But we
cannot take any responsibility for the correctness of all the details.

Please visit
http://www.shoginet.de/turnierberichte/46-yingde-cups/69-yingde-cups.html
There we provide further details, our e-mail-address and a list of the
(western) participants (to be updated).

Kind regards