Why would I want to visit this site?
If you want to get better at Shogi, learn more about it, or just simply enjoy taking a shot at new things, this is the site for you!!!
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Most people who start to play Shogi right after learning each piece's move seem to lack some fundamental philosophies on "what to do" and "what not to do." After reading this site, you will be able to judge most of these things by yourself.
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Most players lack knowledge of which piece to move first. I can somtimes get confused too. Do understand however,95% of the Shogi masters start with onlyone of two moves. You better do the same. See here for those moves.
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There are "Shogi Checkmate Problems (Tsume Shogi)." These problems are similar to Chess Problems. Learning fairly short ones (usually about 3,5, or sometimes even 7 moves) will dramatically improve your closing moves. Have you ever missed a basic checkmate, and regretted it later? After doing these problems, that shouldn't be much of a problem to you anymore. See here for these moves
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Many of the articles on this site will use "Kifu for Flash" Shogi board applet. Please go here to learn how to navigate this applet. Pay particular attention to how to view alternative moves (if there are any), because many of play examples branches out to show variation of the moves.
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Since it will be impossible to explain everything on this site, I will make many references to the established shogi sites. Most of those sites are Japanese. Not Japanse? Don't dread. Even just a little bit of knowledge about Shogi could lead you to understanding the whole page. See here. A little practice and you will be amazed how much you can learn.
One could call this a bug. My site never listed a link to online shogi playing sites. This is partially because when I started this site, I myself knew only one place to play shogi, kurnick.org. This site since changed its name to PlayOK.com. In the meantime, we have seen the birth of 81dojo.com. [...]
Sunday, Apr 8 2012
Shogi-shack.net moving to shogishack.net
What? what is going on? OK, let me explain. I have been using a service called microsoft office live web service. When this service started, the starter package was free. So I was able to quickly set up this site and start posting shogi information. There has been always a limitation to this site. [...]
Friday, Feb 24 2012
Getting Shobiboard in the States
I was at Chicago last week and had visited Mitsuwa market. If you google the store name, you will find this is a franchise of Japanese Supermarket throughout the United States. (They used to be called as Yaohan-USA.) Inside Mitsuwa complex, there is a Japanese book store called Sanseido. When I was browsing for Shogi [...]
Monday, Jul 11 2011
well, since many japanese players started to play at PlayOK.com, the rating of 1500 at playOK is no longer an easy target for novice players. If you can get to 1300 at Playok, it means you are already quite good at Shogi play. Also the PlayOK site is not as friendly as it used [...]
Friday, Jul 8 2011
Other Useful sites
This site introduces you to the variety of Shogi articles. In particular, You will want to take a look at "Basic Shogi information available in English on Internet (1)" for general Shogi information and "Basic Shogi information available in English on Internet (2)" for English literature on various Shogi techniques available on-line .
See here for more reference
Updates to this site may not be as frequently as I would like to have. In the meantime, please refer to the site above. I am certain you will find values.