Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Board & Photo live of 3rd game of 56th Ouza-sen

Today is the day for the 3rd game of 56th Oui-sen between Ouza Habu and Challenger Kimura. Habu is Sente in this game. The game started at 9:00am in Japan. The venue of the play is at Ryugon in Niigata prefecture. You can watch and replay the game through the following pages;

Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Frequently-updated-photo of both players every 30 seconds(Upper = Ouza Habu)

Frequently-updated-photo of Habu & Kimura

Toppage of Ouza-sen broadcasting site(in Japanese)

The thinking time per player is 5 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. It will end in the evening today.

Shogi meetings in New York

Here is the information about shogi meetings in New York, USA according to the blog linked below;

Shogi (Japanese Chess) . Blog Archive . Greenpoint Chess and Go Club

The New York Shogi Club meets on Wednesday evenings from about 7 p.m. with games going on till 10:30 or 11 at the Naniwa restaurant, 4 East 46th Street, zip 10017.

I don't know if the said Club is identical to New York Shogi Club.

I opened takodori's channel - Shogi@FeedEachOther

Today I opened takodori's channel - Shogi@FeedEachOther linked below;

takodori's Channel - Shogi | FeedEachOther

It's a my feed collection of shogi-related contents. The newer, the upper. I hope this will help you find shogi contents saving your time.

For more information about FeedEachOther, please read the following article.

FeedEachother Releases Smart, Social RSS Reader - ReadWriteWeb

The Blog of Club de Shôgi à Genève started

The blog of Club de Shôgi à Genève started on September 28. It's wrtten in French. I hope it will be a base of shogi community in Switzerland.

Club de Shôgi à Genève

Shogi Gathering in San Francisco on October 5

Monthly shogi gathering will be held on October 5 in San Francisco, USA. For more information, please visit the blog of San Francisco Shogi Club linked below;

San Francisco Shogi Club

 

 

Shogi seems to be exhibited in Berlin, Germany on November 14-16

Shogi seems to be exhibited in Japan-Festival in Berlin, Germany on November 14 to 16. For more information, please visit the following pages(in German).

• JapanFestival Berlin 2008 (PDF File)

• Japan Festival 2008 in Berlin - Japan drei Tage zu Gast im Postbahnhof

• Japan-Festival im November im Postbahnhof - Aschaffenburg 24 > Überregional > Kultur

  • Im Postbahnhof gibt es den Angaben zufolge 100 Veranstaltungen mit internationalen Akteuren japanischen Kampfkunst, Taiko-Trommeln, Go, Shogi, Ikebana, Kalligraphie, Origami, Tuschmalerei, Mangas, Cosplay, Anime, Kabuki und Butoh. 50 Aussteller aus allen Bereichen des traditionellen und modernen Japans runden auf zwei Ebenen das Angebot ab.

< Added on September 29 >
According to wannabewatanabe in the comment, Shogi is not on the timetable. Please take care.

Strange, I checked the detailed timetable and there is only Go/Igo mentioned (15.11. and 16.11.), but not Shogi anymore.

Ustream.tv and board live - Final, 2nd NRS Inviation Cup, Nakai vs Nakakura

Ustream & Boardlive of the final game of 2nd NRS Invitation Cup between Nakai Hiroe and Nakakura Hiromi will take place in several hours. The winner will gain 1 million yen as prize money. It will start at 1:00pm JST(9:00pm PDT). The thinking time per player is 90 minutes and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. So I think it will end between 3:30pm and 4:30 pm JST(11:30pm and 0:30am PDT).

• Ustream Channel NRS 1
  
• Ustream Channel NRS 2
• Boardlive using Flash Board | Board live using Java Board

Fukaura defended his Oui-Title in 4-3

On September 25 and 26, the 7th game of 49th Oui-sen 4-win match between Oui Fukaura and Challenger Yoshiharu Habu took place at Kagetsuen in Kanagawa prefecture. Habu was Sente player as a result of Furigoma and Fukaura won the game in 100 moves. With this victory, Fukaura defended his Oui-title in 4-3. Congratulaiton!!

The diagram below is the resignation one when Gote's King escaped to 9d. There were no mate for Gote's King. Here are some possible variations after the diagram. 

+Bx8b S*4f K-6f G*6e(mate)

P*5h S*4f K-4h N*5f K-5i G*6h(mate)

+Bx6d N*6e +Bx6e G*4f K-6f S*5g(mate, replayable by clicking the arrow in the right direction)

+Bx6d N*6e K-6f S*5g G*4f +Bx4f Gx4f(mate)

+Bx6d N*6e K-5f G-4e K-4g G*3f(mate)

There would be more variations, but in any case, Sente would be hopeless.

Board & Photo live today - Nagasawa Chikako vs Iwane Shinobu, 2nd Mynavi Joshi Open

Today is the day for the 3rd game of 1st round for 2nd Mynavi Joshi Open between Nagasawa Chikako(Joryu 4 dan) and Iwane Shinobu(Joryu sho-dan) at Tokyo Shogi Kaikan of JSA. It started at 10:00 am. Nagasawa is Sente player as a result of Furigoma. You can watch and replay the game through either of the pages linked below;

Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Frequently updated Photos of both players and board(Left = Nagasawa)

Official Blog(in Japanese) | Mynavi Joshi Open Toppage(in Japanese)

The thinking time per player is 3 hours and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. The game is expected to end around 5:00pm today.

Naruto Shippuuden 77(Naruto Episode 297) has shogi scenes

Naruto Shippuuden 77 has shogi scenes which are approximately 3 minutes. Here are some snapshots.

The conversation between Asuma and Shikamaru is about Bogin(Climbing Silver) strategy. They are talking that Bogin is an sacrificing advance party when breaking through the enemy's formation. Does this have anything to do with the destiny of these two guys?

The second snapshot is a bit peculiar to us who are somewhat familiar with shogi. Bogin(Climbing Silver) is a strategy of Ibisha using one's right Silver which aims at breaking though the head of his Rook. But the position shows that a King in Mino castle is in check of Silver. I don't think Kishimoto or the animator know shogi very well.
But anyway, Naruto is a very popular anime not only in Japan but also verious countries. I hope lots of Naruto fans will get interested in shogi through the scenes like this episode.

The title of this Episode is 棒銀(Bogin = Climbing Silver). Climbing Silver is one of the most popular strategies in shogi among from beginners to professional players. Here are some links about Climbing Silver.

• Shogi Atlas --- it has three headlined pages including "Climbing Silver"
• Bogin System
• 棒銀 @wikipedia in Japanese