I read Phill Holland's post to Shogi-l and got to know the sad news.
I am sadly announcing the death of George Hodges, who died on 3 August
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, and
I will be attending on behalf of the BSF.If you have any messages of condolence you would like to send, his widow
is monitoring his email address, george.hod...@talk21.com.
He will be greatly missed by everyone who knew him.
If you'd like to send any messages of condolence to his email-address, the above one will not work since it's shortened. The complete one can be found here in BSF page.
George Hodges started promoting shogi in 1970's long pefore the Internet became popular. According Aono(9-dan) who visited London and met him in 1980, he was very surprised, at that time, that there was a person who was much more than a shogi fan, publishing a shogi book for beginners, issuing bi-monthly shogi magazine in English, studying not only shogi but also old shogi variants, making those shogi sets by himself, and so forth.
May he rest in peace.
Only some will in the uk will miss him, no comments yet from the shogi world - stands to a reason -
Posted by: walterum | September 12, 2011 at 06:38 AM