Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Take & Drop #7 - 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)

Computer was so weak in last century

Here is the link to an interesting video at Youtube. It's a video that a computer was checkmated only in 15 moves in an even game.

Only 15 moves

The name of the software is "Naito 9dan Shogi Hiden" released in 1985 for family computer.

Take & Drop #6 - 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's winning 1000 games is at stake

Habu's next game is scheduled on December 20 with Toshiaki Kubo. He already won 999 games before it. If he wins the game, his rate of achieving 1000 victories are the quickest in shogi history. According to the blog called Reiro in Japanese, there are 7 professional players who achieved 1000 victories such as Yasuharu Oyama, Hifumi Kato, Makoto Nakahara, Kunio Yonenaga, Kunio Naito, Michio Ariyoshi and Koji Tanigawa.

The quickest achievement is made by Tanigawa - 25 years and 6 month.
The highest winning percentage at the achievement of 1000 victories is made by Oyama - 68.7%

If Habu win the next game, he will get to the great number in 21 years and 11 months with the winning percentage of 72.8%. Whether this or next year, the new records will be certainly generated.

Take & Drop #5 - 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)  

Take & Drop #4 - 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) .

Take & Drop #3 - 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)

Take & Drop #2 - 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)

Take & Drop #1 - 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)  

Result of 6th game of 20th Ryuo-sen

The 6th game of 20th Ryuo-sen seven-wins match between Ryuo Watanabe and Challenger Sato was held on December 12 & 13. The Sente player of this game is Watanabe. Watanabe won it in 135 moves. With this victory, he defended Ryuo-title by 4-2. He holds Ryuo-title for four terms in a row which nobody did it in the history of Ryuo-sen for 20 years.

The diagram above is the resignation diagram. After the diagram, Gote's King would be trapped as below;

Kx1a Nx1c+ S*2a L*1b Sx1b S*2b(mate)

Gote has no effective way to check Sente's King at the resignation.