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Shogi for chess players

I love solving chess problems because they show all kinds of brilliant tactics (forks, pins, skewers, discovered check, double check, queen sacrifices, etc. etc.). However, when I actually play chess, somehow these tactics never seem to materialize. Part of this is undoubtedly because I suck at chess, but part of it is due (I think) to the nature of the game. In most chess games, one player makes a mistake and loses a pawn or two, or gets a lousy exchange (e.g. two pawns for a knight). The opponent then proceeds to exchange all the other pieces until he has a winning endgame, and then promotes a pawn and the game is over. If you make a big enough blunder (e.g. losing a minor or major piece) you might as well resign right away. You can play hundreds of games of chess without seeing the kind of brilliant tactics that are there in the problem books. When was the last time you saw a queen sacrifice in a chess game you played? Or a game that ended in a flurry of sacrifices by both players as both players rushed to mate each other before they were mated? But this kind of thing is routine in shogi (with the caveat that there are no queen sacrifices per se because there is no queen; however, major piece sacrifices as part of a mating attack are not at all unusual). When I play shogi, I feel like every game has ten times as many tactics as a typical chess game.

Although I do not have much experience in playing chess and thus I'm not in the position to mention what the writer says about chess in the linked article, I agree that you need to use many tactical moves to play shogi well. Learning Tesuji(tactical) will be never be useless to play shogi better.

Comments

[buddha22]

currently im reading up on shogi because im heavily interested in japanese culture, and i used to play chess on a competetive level when i was younger. in reponse to the previous comment chess is indeed actually full of those brilliant tactics that you see puzzle books, sometimes they are just not as straight forward, and resigning after losing a major piece is usually a mistake unless you are playing at master level, you can use superior tactics even down a piece to force thge opponent to drop a piece or make a blunder, furthermore, even down if the right types of sacrifices are made you can win. i just wanted to point this out.

[takodori]

> buddha22

Thanks for your comment from the point of view as a person who used to play competitive chess.

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