Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

A comment to HIDETCHI's latest shogi video from an English teacher

I found the following comment from an English teacher who seems to visit to Japan to teach English today.  Interesting.

Thanks to you lessons I am winning a Shogi competition between me and a Japanese English teacher I work with :D It's good too because now he is studying Shogi more because he doesn't like being beaten at his own countries game. Actually we are a really good level for each other. We play games after school in the teachers office :)

Here is the video with the comment above.

Chocolate pieces and a dish board of Let's Catch the Lion!

Here is the video uploaded on YouTube that shows Chocolate pieces and dish board of Let's Catch the Lion!(Dobutsu Shogi, Animal Shogi).

A TV in china seemed to cover the 1st game of 35th Kio-sen held in Sanghai on Feb. 5

I found the following video today. It's apparently about the captioned game and a shogi tournament for children held in a parallel manner.

HIDETCHI uploaded a annotation video about the 1st game of 35th Kio-sen

HIDETCHI uploaded a annotation video about the 1st game of 35th Kio-sen between Kio Kubo Toshiaki and Challenger 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu. Here it is.

A video titled gta sa "GROVE SHOGI" MOD

I'm at a loss how I felt about the video. But it has something fascinating. gta sa stands for Grand Theft Auto San Andreas which seems a videogame.  Anyway, the game is Suzuki Style Ishida-ryu Sanganbisha though it's hard to follow since there are no vertical and horizontal lines to form each square.

HIDETCHI's videos which exceeds 5000 views

The following HIDETCHI's shogi videos exceeds 5000 views as of now. Congratulation on the great achievement. At the same time, I'm curious why the viewcounts of Famous Mate Probblems, Shogi Exercises and Shogi Openings are relatively low. Is there anyone who has good clarification?

<< From How to Play Shogi Series>>

• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#1- Introduction
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#2- How the pieces move
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#3- Promotion
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#4- Special Lesson
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#5- Chinese characters on the pieces
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#6- Capture and Drop
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#7- Check and Checkmate
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#8- Game notation
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#9- Illegal Pawn drop
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#10- Piece exchange and Values of
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#17- Castles for Double Static Rook
• How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#18- Castles for Ranging Rook against

<< From Famous Shogi Games Series>>

• Famous Shogi Games: HABU vs KATOU (Jan. 9th, 1989)
• Famous Shogi Games: HABU vs KIMURA (Sep. 1st, 2001)
• Famous Shogi Games: HABU vs TANIGAWA (Oct. 29th & 30th, 1996)
• Famous Shogi Games: SATOU vs HABU (Jul. 18th, 2008)
• Famous Shogi Games: MORIUCHI vs HABU (Apr. 25th & 26th, 2005)
• Famous Shogi Games: NAKAHARA vs YONENAGA (Apr. 26th & 27th,

<< From others >>

• Shogi Openings: Quick Ishida Attack 
• Top menu of HIDETCHI's Shogi(将棋) Videos

Promotion Video of Kumon's New Study Shogi

KUMONSHUPPAN, who is an account of the publisher of New Study Shogi on YouTube, released the following promotion video for it. It's sold for children in Japan for their first shogi. As you watch below, they do not have to read Kanji pieces since each piece has indication of how to move on it in red arrows.

Shogi without using a board and pieces between Meijin Habu Yoshiharu and 9-dan Sato Yasumitsu

It aired on January 1, 2010. How the game went was just amazing.

The gamerecord is available to replay by clicking the either of the links below. As you see in the video above, Sato's last move is missing in them.

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A shogi video which seems aired in Minsk

This seems a video of TV program about shogi aired in Minsk.

(The link has been exchanged to one on YouTube in response to the Marc's comment.)

BEGIN Japanology - shogi

I don't know how long they will be available to watch on YouTube, but the videos of BEGIN Japanology which NHK World TV broadcasted last week are available to watch there now. Here are the links;

1. YouTube - What is the Shogi 1 /3

2. YouTube - What is the Shogi 2 /3

3. YouTube - What is the Shogi 3 /3