Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Number of shogi players decreased to 127 in Brainking.com at End of November

According to the ratings page of provisional BKR players in Brainking.com, the number of shogi players who has provisional BKR decreased to 127 at the end of November(JST). The site has added shogi to its wide variety of game line since August 12, 2005(JST). Comparing with the end of September, 2007, the number of shogi players increased by 4. Please refer to the definition of BKR(BrainKing Rating) if you like to know. .

The number of minishogi players who has provisional BKR is 83 at the end of November.

Ryuo-sen boardlive today and tomorrow(November 28 & 29)

The fifth game of the 20th Ryuo-sen match between Akira Watanabe(Ryuo) and Yasumitsu Sato(2 crowns)  is now on boardlive. Before the game, Watanabe leads the score by 3-1. Sato cannot lose any more game to take Ryuo-title since this is 4-wins match. Sente player is Sato for this game. Today is the first day so it will end in the evening tomorrow(Japan time). You can watch it through this page. Click the following button in the page.

Then you can watch or replay the game. The browser which can allow Kifu for Java is required.

You can replay other games by clicking the button to begins with the image of Osho pieces in this page.

Chidori Gin No Senpo Zukan

I would like to introduce a good shogi site with replayable board(Kifu for Java) to readers. The site is called "Chidogi Gin No Senpo Zukan" which has currently 170 page contents with replayable board about various shogi openings written by Chidorigin. He will continue to add the contents further. Although it is written in Japanese, you can learn a lot replaying a specific opening on the replayable board there. I have made useful link to each page of the great contents for your convenience. Please give it a try the following my bookmark to use the Replayable Shogi Senpo encyclopedia. I recommendto see the linked page with setting your browser encode as Japanese before clicking.

takodori's bookmarks tagged with "Chidorigin's-Senpo-Zukan"

I put some of the following tags to each page. If you click any of them, you can see the links under the tag below;

• 3 + aerial-fight
• 14 + ai-furibisha
• 5 + aigakari
• 1 + eishun-ryu
• 75 + furibisha
• 10 + gokigen-nakabisha
• 2 + haya-ishida
• 2 + hineribisha
• 1 + ibisha-others
• 3 + ishida
• 1 + itteson-kakugawari
• 23 + kakugawari
• 7 + kakugawari-bogin
• 6 + kakugawari-hayagurigin
• 11 + kakugawari-koshikakegin
• 3 + kakugawari-others
• 23 + mukaibisha
• 1 + N3c
• 23 + nakabisha
• 1 + no-guard
• 5 + onigoroshi
• 2 + R8e
• 4 + S4h-5g
• 24 + S6h-5g
• 14 + sangenbisha
• 32 + shikenbisha
• 2 + sujichigaikaku
• 4 + tatefutori
• 20 + yagura
• 2 + yagura-bogin
• 3 + yagura-morishita-system
• 4 + yagura-others
• 3 + yagura-S3g
• 1 + yagura-suzumizashi
• 18 + yokofutori

Ryuo-sen boardlive today and tomorrow(November 21 & 22)

The forth game of the 20th Ryuo-sen match between Akira Watanabe(Ryuo) and Yasumitsu Sato(2 crowns)  is now on boardlive. Before the game, Watanabe leads the score by 2-1. Watanabe is Sente player. Today is the first day so it will end in the evening tomorrow(Japan time). You can watch it through this page. Click the following button in the page.

Then you can watch or replay the game. The browser which can allow Kifu for Java is required.

You can replay other games by clicking the button to begins with the image of Osho pieces in this page.

Three-Piece Story by Takeuchi Makoto

I found the following weekly short novel was started from this October. Enjoy yourself.

Three Piece Story | Tokyo Tales

This is a story about mystery solving and cultural cross-pollination, as played out on a chessboard—or a shogi board or a xiangqi board. Three people, one from China, one from the United States, and one from Japan, come together in the borderless realm of the Internet and discover a common affinity as each, despite occasional clashes, takes an interest in the others’ worlds.

It has 5 episodes up to now.

Here is the author's website called "TAKEUCHI Makoto's Website English contents".

A movie of Cosplay Shogi at Youmacon 2007

Today I happened to find a movie of Cosplay Shougi held at Youmacon 2007 in Detroit, US. The link is below. The length of it is 7 minutes and 24 seconds. Enjoy!

YoumaCon 07 Cosplay Shougi HighLights

Blog entries by a guy who finally purchased The Art of Shogi

I would like readers to share the entries by a guy in Malaysia who waited for a long time but finally purchased a copy of The Art of Shogi written by Tony Hosking.

A lousy week (September 30)

That's right, I love to play shogi but unfortunately I'm still a beginner. I've made an order for a book last month unfortunately the company cancel the order due to item lost. *Sigh* I guess I have to wait another month for my new purchase of "The Art of Shogi" to arrive.

Exams, Work, Shogi and Wei? kreuz!!! (November 16)

I'm happy to say that I just receive a copy of a shogi strategy book called "Art of Shogi" last Monday and man oh man I'm so FREAKING HAPPY! I was actually spending the whole night learning until 5am!

I quickly understand how happy he is now. I believe the book will improve his shogi extensively as he is absorbed in reading it whole night.

Ryuo-sen boardlive today and tomorrow(November 13 & 14)

The third game of The 20th Ryuo-sen match between Akira Watanabe(Ryuo) and Yasumitsu Sato(2 crowns)  is now on boardlive. Before the game, the score is tied by 1-1. Sato is Sente player. Today is the first day so it will end in the evening tomorrow(Japan time). You can watch it through this page. Click the following button in the page.

Then you can watch or replay the game. The browser which can allow Kifu for Java is required.

You can replay other games by clicking the button to begins with the image of Osho pieces in this page.

Bookmark collection of what they are talking about "Shion no ou"

Here is my bookmark collection of what they are talking in English about "Shion no ou" which is a Shogi mistery anime started from October 13 in Japan. I'm updating it whenever I find such entries. You can follow what anime-fans are talking about each episode of the amine through the page linked below;

Shion effect

A good shogi site for novices/beginners

I would like to introduce readers a good shogi site for novices/beginners.

Site to help you get to the Kurnik rating of 1500 or more.

The author of this site is a person who was born in Japan and he seems to live in US now. The site has pages about Pawn advantage, Value of pieces, Shogi Strategies, Tsumi & Hisshi and so on.