Author: leonid
Date: 04:46:20 08/04/01
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On August 04, 2001 at 03:59:47, Pekka Karjalainen wrote: >On August 03, 2001 at 15:10:11, leonid wrote: > >>> >>> Since chess is not very popular in Japan, I would presume there is very little >>>of interest published in Japanese about the game, or about chess programming >>>specifically. Look at the Elo list and count the number of native Japanese IMs >>>and GMs. Can you find any? >> >> >>I hardly can recognize Japanese names but only some Chinese. Even Chinese names >>I do recognize better when they written in Chinese characters. Still my Chinese >>is not good enough to read something about chess programming. The only things >>that I was able to read until now are books about grammars printed in Chinese. > > There are searchable Elo databases, where you can indicate the nationality of >the players you are seeking. There are a few Japanese Americans who play chess >in America who shouldn't be counted as part of strictly Japanese chess culture, >given that they do not live there... > > A very rough guide to Oriental names: > > If the family name, which is often given first, has only one syllable the name >is probably Chinese or Korean. If it has two or more, it is likely to be >Japanese. If written with Chinese characters, Japanese family names usually >have two characters, while the others have only one. This is not always the >case, however, but it is a rule of thumb that works often. > > Japanese words are always formed of syllables of the form CV or CVn. To be >more exact, they start with one or two consonants or sometimes none. Then there >is a vowel. They do not end in any consonants, expect sometimes 'n'. > > Miyakawa > Toyotomi > Miura (Mi - u - ra) > > These are Japanese names. > > Wang > Hong > > These cannot be Japanese, as Japanese does not have any words that end with >letters ng in any form of transcription. Of course, Japanese is most often >written in the syllabic kana characters and kanji, but I am talking about >transcription here. > >> >>Problem with finding on the Web what is written about chess programming, in >>Chinese, is Chinese writing. You must have special driver or even keyboard to >>write any word. With Spanish or German this problem is almost non existent. > > This is true. Same with Japanese and Korean materials. You can, however, try >searching for "chess programming" in English in .jp or .cn domains. >Universities and similar organizations are likely to have English pages as well >as pages in their own language. You might find sometihng, though I have to add >I haven't tried myself. > >> >>Leonid. >> > >Pekka Karjalainen Your response was very interesting and useful for me to read. Thanks for it very much! Cheers, Leonid.
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