Shogi koma from ISPS

Since the Ivory Coast Shôgi federation has been created, ISPS with sir Terao Manabu has never stopped helping it through material giving.

At the begining of our activities, it sent to Shogi ivoire, 10 sets of Shôgi pieces, with the ten that New York Shôgi federation give to us in January.

Since this last 2 months, ISPS agreed again to give to us some 40 shogi pieces sets ('ten sets by month). We now received 20 out of 40.

So this gift, is a real support for shogi spreading here, as far as most of shogi players in Ivory Coast are students, and haven't often means to buy pieces from Japan.

Also these pieces are very important, because, we were planning to set up the "gakkou-sen", a first shogi tournament for the best secondary schools of the country.The students of these schools are really fond of reflexion games, and also competition among them.So it is a really best way of promoting shogi, since they will train very often, to be the best one.So I had yesterday a meeting with the headmaster of Lycee classique d'Abidjan, and next days we will meet the Lycee Sainte Marie de cocody hea.After this, another 5 secondary great schools will have shogi clubs and we will begin teaching them some josekis we learnt and also tesujis.

I really thank ISPS for his full support for us and also all shogi federations and people who are really working for Shôgi spreading in Africa and in the whole world.

Shôgi forever