Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Lesson #23 became available - Video series of How to play Shogi by HIDETCHI

Lesson #23 of the video series of How to play Shogi is now available to watch on Youtube. Here is the link to it.

YouTube - How to play Shogi -Lesson#23- Shogi World (Professional Players)

Watanabe won the 4th game - 21st Ryuo-sen

On November 26 & 27, the 4th game of the 21st Ryuo-sen 4-win match between Ryuo Watanabe Akira and Challenger Meijin Habu took place at Kikuchi Kanko Hotel in Kumamoto Prefecture. Habu was Sente player. The opening strategy was Ai-gakari.. The game ended with Watanabe's victory in 136 moves. The diagram below is when Habu resigned just after Watanabe took the Pawn on 3i by his promoted Rook. After the diagram, there will be no mate for Gote's King. Both King will be able to enter the opponents camp but Sente's point of pieces is not likely to reach 24 since Gote has two Bishops in hand in addition to the promoted Rook on the board(Rook & Bishop = 5 points/each, other minor pieces except for King = 1 point/each). That's why Habu resigned the game at this stage.

Habu still leads the score in 3-1. The fifth game will be held on December 4 & 5.

4th game of 21st Ryuo-sen between Ryuo Watanabe and Challenger Meijin Habu started

Today and tomorrow are the days for the 4th game of 21st Ryuo-sen 4-win match between Ryuo Watanabe and Challenger Meijin Habu. Habu is Sente Player this game. It started at 9:00 am at Kikuchi Kanko Hotel in Kumamoto prefecture. Before the game, Habu led the score in 3-0. The winner of this series will take 32 million yen as the highest prize money in the professional shogi world.

You may watch and replay the game through either of the links below;

Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java (Raw)

Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java (With variations for beginners)

The official website and blog of the 21st Ryuo-sen are linked below;

Official Site | Ryuo-sen Plus(Official Blog)

100 easy tsume practices

The problems are available through the following bookmarks. Some problems contain unnecesary pieces on the board in order to make those positions likely to real cases.

1. #1-10
2. #11-20
3. #21-30
4. #31-40
5. #41-50
6. #51-60
7. #61-70
8. #71-80
9. #81-90
10. #91-100

Tokyo Mango's articles

I happened to get to know Tokyo Mango's article about Satomi's first title taking of Kurashiki Tohka and the author wrote about Beni Kurenai. Here are the links to them 

TOKYOMANGO: 16-year old wins Japanese chess championship        TOKYOMANGO: This girl will kick your ass in Japanese chess.                       

I sent a trackback to the entry linked on the top with hope for Tokyo Mango Readers to get to know the existence of the excellent HIDETCHI's video series of How to play Shogi to give it a try.

Daily Yomiuri Online also covered Satomi's victory in Kurashiki-Tohka-sen

Here is the link to the article

16-year-old girl grabs Kurashiki Toka shogi title : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri)                       

 

The Mainichi Daily News reported about Satomi obtained her first major title

Here is the link to the article with a photo.

Teenage shogi player wins first major women's tournament - The Mainichi Daily News

High School girl professional player took Kurashiki-tohka from Shimizu

Satomi Kana (2dan, high school girl) took the title of Kurashiki Tohka from Shimizu Ichiyo in 2-0 today. Here are the links to the two games.

1st game (Played on November 6, Sente was Shimizu)
2nd game (Played on November 23, Sente was Satomi)

Videos available for novices/beginners on Youtube

Right now there are 3 users who posted shogi introductory video(s) for novices/beginners.
Here are the links to them for your instant comparison..

YouTube: Shogi Introduction Lesson #1 Internationalized Version

YouTube: Shogi 1 - King, Bishop, Rook, and Knights


YouTube: How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#1- Introduction

Board & Photo live today - Saida Haruko vs Suzuki Kanna, 2nd Mynavi Joshi Open

Today is the day for the 7th game of 1st round for 2nd Mynavi Joshi Open(Challenger deciding knokout tournament) between Saida Haruko(Joryu 4 dan) and Suzuki Kanna(Joryu sho dan) at Tokyo Shogi Kaikan of JSA. It started at 10:00 am. As a result of Furigoma, Suzuki became Sente player.

Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

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

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.