Bad new in my journal

On 3 August George Hodges died
after a short illness. He introduced Shogi to Europe in the 1970's,
running The Shogi Association (TSA) and published The Shogi Magazine in
the 1970's and 1980's. His funeral will be in Bedford on 16 August
If you have any messages of condolence you would like to send, his widow
is monitoring his email address, george.hodges@talk21.com.

He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him.

Ivory Coast Shôgi federation

Section up of shôgi abidjan

First people trained

Good morning, the time is to talk about the steps to set up the Ivory coast shôgi federation.

After the first Shôgiban has been handmade, I decided to train people.At the same time it was the begining of holidays, so I invited many of my friends at a meeting in Abidjan....Unfortunately, only three oif them came.

But I trained them and they have been the first people trained in Shôgi in Ivory coast.

After this first training, we decided with, the trained people to set up a shôgi local section in Abidjan, since our university is in Yamoussoukro, and only come in Abidjan (the most important town) in holidays.

So some days after, we invited many Abidjan students to another meeting, where we made a training also before setting up the Abidjan local Shôgi section.

Thus with my friends of Yamoussoukro we decided to also set up the Yamoussoukro local section at our university when we'll entry classes.

Shôgi Abidajn and Shôgi yamoussoukro, once set up, worked together to set up in December of 2009 the first federation of shôgi in Africa.By during holydays many other training haver be done.

Yosh, this is how shogi ivory coast has been set up. Let's continue soon.Jaa na