According to the blog of Irish Go Association, Shogi will be showcased along with Igo variants and other games on October 29 after their annual general meeting.
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After the AGM finishes there will be a demonstration night to showcase Go Variants and other related Games. So far Joker Go, Abalone, Go Moku, Nine Men’s Morris, Shogi, Hive, Clobber and Amazons have been mentioned. Playing Go will be allowed too.
There are many professional Go players who likes shogi in Japan. According to the Wikipedia pages in Japanese, Cho-chikun often playes on-line shogi, Kudo Norio has ama-5-dan and they say Takagi Shoichi would be A class player unless he became a professional Go player. One of my friends told me today that the recent edition of Shukan Go(Weekly Go) magazine reported that a shogi club was formed again in Nihon Kiin. He informed me that the members on the report is Kubo Hideo, Miyazawa Goro and Abe Yoshiteru.
Also, there are many professional Shogi players who likes Go. The greatest players such as Oyama Yasuharu and Masuda Kozo liked to play Go. Yonenaga Kunio wrote a book of Go. Manabe Kazuo, Kawaguchi Toshiko, Tosa Koji, Senzaki Manabu, Goda Masataka, and many more.
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