Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

The deadline of 13th SC24 Meijinsen's entry is December 26(JST)

If you would like to participate in the captioned tournament, you should apply for it immediately since the deadline is December 26(JST). For further details, please read the following;

Masters' Tournament Deadline Approaches

Take & Drop #12 - 3 move tsume practice

You can see the answer by clicking the arrow in the right direction under the board in order to replay the answer line. (Popup diagram to be saved as an image file for printing) Click the exclamation marks which appear below the diagram for further comments on the problem. If you click the marks again, the comment windows go away.

Take & Drop #11 - 3 move tsume practice

You can see the answer by clicking the arrow in the right direction under the board in order to replay the answer line. (Popup diagram to be saved as an image file for printing) Click the exclamation marks which appear below the diagram for further comments on the problem. If you click the marks again, the comment windows go away.

 

Take & Drop #10 - 3 move tsume practice

You can see the answer by clicking the arrow in the right direction under the board in order to replay the answer line.(Popup diagram to be saved as an image file for printing)

Episode 10 of Three-piece Story was released.

You can read not only Episode 10 but also the former ones through the page linked below;

Three-Piece Story | Tokyo Tales | Trends in Japan | Web Japan

Take & Drop #9 - 3 move tsume practice

You can see the answer by clicking the arrow in the right direction under the board in order to replay the answer line.(Popup diagram to be saved as an image file for printing)

Habu made the quickest achievement of 1000 victories

Yesterday Habu beat Kubo in a game of 66th Juni-sen. With this victory, he achieved 1000 wins since he became a professional player. He is the quickest, youngest player with the highest winning percentage at the time of getting to the great record comparing with the other 7 players who already achieved 1000 victories. According to Mainichi, he achieved it in 22 years at the age of 37 with the winning percentage of .728(1000 wins, 373 losses and 1 jishogi). Tanigawa is the second quickest player who achieved it in 25 years and 6 months at the age of 40. Oyama has the second highest winning percentage of .687 at the time of getting to it.

Congratulation on Habu.

Take & Drop #8 - 3 move tsume practice

You can see the answer by clicking the arrow in the right direction under the board in order to replay the answer line.(Popup diagram to be saved as an image file for printing)

If you are interested in developing shogi engine

You may be interested in reading the followings since both have shogi GUI to work with Chess Engine Communication protocol.

Winboard_F

Tagua Project

Photos of Kasparov's playing shogi at chessbase.com

Photos and an article that chess champion Gary Kasparov played shogi has been published at chessbase.com. Here is the link(The article is in German).

Kasparov als Shogi-Spieler

Here is the like to the page translated into English by Google.

Kasparov as shogi player