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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

Next topic: Steps to setting up of Ivory coast national federation

The next journal page will deal with the steps done to set up the Ivory coast national federation.
It has not been easy. But with love we can do all. It is the way to express my grateful to shogi, for the happiness it gives to me when I'm behind a board game. Let's finish for today but remember: "Shôgi is not simply a game, but a life philosophy".
Sayonara and see you next time

Starting point of my love for Shôgi

My love of japanese culture began few years ago, I dont remind the specific starting point, but what I can say is that little by little it has been growing up.

From the first japan friends club I set up in secondary school to the one I set up last year, many things happened.

Let's drop some details and approach the mail theme dealing with Shôgi.

During my readings and manga watching to further discover Japan, I found last year the manga Naruto Shippuden, which I have been fond of.

In this manga, one particular character, Shikamaru has impressed me, by his intelligence and the way he analyzed things. By being crazy of Shikamaru, I chose his name as nickname so I was called "Shikamaru Senpai" here in my school. So I began thinking that I played Shôgi as Shikamaru I would be wise and have a sense of analyzis like him. That's like this my love of Shôgi was born.

By the time I began thinking that if Shôgi could have a good effect on me, why not try to introduce it to other people in my country.

So I went on the net to have more information and I mastered the pieces moves.

So the following step was the handmaking of my first shogiban.