How to care for your quality shogi pieces

Recently I had a question about how to care for quality shogi pieces from one of my friends during playing a turn-based shogi game in Brainking.com. The sets were gifted to him but the presenter did not tell him how to do every-day care for it. I think my answer to him will be useful as well for those who have quality shogi piece sets in their own. My reply excluding the personal part was as following;

Many piece sellers recommend users to wipe wooden quality pieces by a dry, soft cotton cloth each time you put them in the piece pond or box after playing in order to prevent a piece from getting dirty. If it gets dirty, then they recommend to wipe it in a soft cotton cloth with just a tiny drop of camellia oil.

I hope this will help if you have quality shogi piece sets.

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Comments

[Benoit Lessard]

Hi from Canada !

I want to wish you best of luck with your blog. Shogi strategy texts in english are hard to find even on the net.

Last year my shogi dojo rating was 1350 and I havent played a lot since. Now im making a small comeback and i have difficulties reaching 1100 i dont think my playing strenght did drop that much, im wondering if there is possibly a rating deflation in shogi dojo.
Also im wondering if there is a nice shogi board editor somewhere (to make shogi diagram)

Ps i think its about time someone decide to design "standard" shogi pieces (fonts) for making diagrams. (like hasting or linares for western chess)

Thanks

[takodori]

Hello Benoit,

Since some good shogi texts in Japanese are emerging these days, I hope they will be translate into English. I'm now trying to find someone who can cooperate the translation.

That's what many people experienced in SC24. One assumption is that younger people is encreasing there. They are generally stronger in SC24's time control and eagerer to study the front line of opening variation. As a result, an old boy like myself suffer from downrating although I personally feel I do not become weaker.

As to shogi board editors, I will make a new entry in my blog in near future.

I did not know anything about hasting or linares by reading your comment. I will examine them later when I have time. Thanks for your opinion.