From: Reijer Grimbergen <grimberg <at> ETL <dot> GO <dot> JP>
Date: 22 apr 1999
Subject: Re: Do you know Hank Rogers?

Sam Sloan <sloan <at> ishipress <dot> com> writes:

> Do you know Hank Rogers? He is an American with his own computer software
> company somewhere near Ofuna, Japan. His father is a famous go player,
> Jerry Rogers.

> I wrote my own computer shogi program in 1984. It was called Shogi Gaijin.

> All copies of my program have been lost except that I left one copy on a
> disk in the office of Hank Rogers in 1985. He might not even know it is
> there, as I was trying to keep my program secret at the time.

> If Hank Rogers can be located, perhaps by some miracle my shogi program has
> survived.

> Sam Sloan

Sorry, never heard of him. Not a real surprise, I guess, since I do not know
much about Go and never heard of his father either. I hope you find a way
to get your Shogi program back.

Reijer


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