In 1972, when Michimaro was browsing a Go-game magazine, he happened to see a note that told a Dutchman wanted to play Go games by mail with someone. Herman was interested in the Japanese culture. Michimaro wrote a letter to Herman at once and we began correspondence and mail-games of Go. Both of us were biginners regarding the games of Go. Since then we have been enjoying exchanging mails and playing the games. We are on about the same level as tothe ability of Go. It is one of the reasons that our correspondence has lasted for so long a time. The means of our communication has changed with the progress of the technology during the period. For the first several years our letters were hand-written and sent by air, after I bought a typewriters tapped the keys, then with an electric typewriter, next with a word-processor, and I got a Mac Classic. With Herman's propose we began to send our moves of the Go games on floppy disks. At last we came to the point where we start our common WebSite.The site is not enough to satisfy every visitor yet. But we would like you to know that it is a result of our communication through more than a quarter century. |