Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Some games to replay which were played at ISF in Tendo, Japan

JSA made it available to replay some games. Here are the links to them. They were played on November 9.

Semifinal - Arend van Oosten(Sente) vs Sergej Korchitskij(winner)
Semifinal - Alan Baker(sente) vs Tang Shunjie(winner)
Final - Tang Shunjie(sente, winner) vs Sergej Korchitsukij

Tang Shunjie was the winner of the ISF tournament in 2008. Sengej occupied the 2nd place. And third place taker was Alan Baker as a result of the match between the losers of the semifinal match.

Lesson #19 has been uploaded - HIDETCHI's video series "How to play Shogi（将棋）"

The Lesson#19 is now available to watch on Yotube.

YouTube - How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#19 - Castles for Static Rook agains Ranging Rook

I would recommend you to be a subscriber of this series through this page if you would like to have updates timely.

Pro vs Foreign Ama over SC24 tomorrow

According to the information posted to Shogi-l, there will be three games to wach at Shogi Club 24 between Pro vs Ama on November 8.. For more information, please read the linked article below. You can watch any games as a guest there. Registration is not necessary.

Online games between professional shogi players shogi amateurs from USA, Asia and Europe.

Boardlive in the morning and the afternoon - 2nd Asahi Trophy Shogi Open

Today many games of 2nd Asahi Trophy Shogi Open are taking plance today. The following games started at 10:00am.

Iijima Eiji(6 dan, Sente) vs Suzuki Daisuke(8 dan) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Horiguchi Kazushiza(7 dan, Sente) vs Ohira Takehiso(5 dan) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Anyoji Takanori(5 dan, Sente) vs Abe Takashi(8 dan) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Inoue Keita(8 dan, Sente) vs Itodani Tetsuro(5 dan) - Kifu for Falsh | Kifu for Java

The following games are to start at 2:00pm

Suzuki Daisuke(8dan, sente) vs Horiguchi Kazushiza(7 dan)- Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Abe Takashi(8 dan) vs Kubo Toshiaki(8 dan)  - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

Itodani Tetsuro(5 dan) vs Nakagawa Daisuke(7 dan) - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

The thinking time per player is 40 minutes and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. It will end in one hour and a half or so.

Results of PlayOK(former Kurnik) Official Shogi tournaments held last October

PlayOK(former Kurnik) is an on-line gamesite where you can play shogi in various time control. Here is the list of the captioned tournaments held there last month. First column is the tournament number, Second is the date and start time.. The third is the winner. You can go to the page of the tournament table by clicking each link of tournament number.

• 2604093 2008-10-29 (wed.) 20:15 --- (cancelled)
• 2585439 2008-10-25 (sat.) 14:15 --- wwwshogipl
• 2585413 2008-10-22 (wed.) 20:15 --- linkuei
• 2566503 2008-10-18 (sat.) 14:15 --- mugen9x9
• 2566477 2008-10-15 (wed.) 20:15 --- yuryshpilev
• 2547931 2008-10-11 (sat.) 14:15 --- jakpk35
• 2547905 2008-10-08 (wed.) 20:15 --- (cancelled)
• 2529211 2008-10-04 (sat.) 14:15 --- kalpl35
• 2529185 2008-10-01 (wed.) 20:15 --- (cancelled)

PlayOK shogi official tournaments take place every Wednesday and Saturday. The more detailed schedule of the coming tournaments can be found in the page of upcoming tournaments.

Boardlive now - 2nd Asahi Trophy Shogi Open

The game of 2nd Asahi Trophy Shogi Open between Kubo Toshiaki(8 dan) vs Nagamuma Hiroshi(7 dan) just started at 2:00pm. As a result of Furigoma, Nagamuma became Sente player. You can replay the game through either of the links below;

Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

The thinking time per player is 40 minutes and less than 60 seconds per move after consuming it. It will end in one hour and a half or so.

Outline of International Shogi Festival 2008 in Tendo

Nihon Shogi Renmei(Japan Shogi Association) published it. Please click the link below if you are interested. International Shogi Festival will take place on November 8 & 9.

Outline of ISF

A CNET article inserts the link to "Shogi Hour" by Aoki Jun

I'm surprised to find that the linked article about Youtube auto-translation includes the link to "Shogi Hour". I don't know why the writer selects it. But anyway it is good for shogi to be known to many people who did not heard about anything about it before.

YouTube now auto-translates subtitled vids | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone - CNET

My dream, albeit just a dream, is to have YouTube use speech-to-text conversion on all its videos to make this an automatic process, since creating properly timed subtitles for long-form videos is a pain.

To give it a spin, try it on this video where you can see Robocop play Shogi (Japanese chess) with lasers.

Articles I found interesting recently

Here are the links to the articles mentioning to shogi which I found interesting recently.

Shogi Strategy: End game « The Level 8 Buddhist

Gamers` Esperanto or Thesaurus of Shogi

SHOGI AND CHESS | Comparing Chess And Shogi - Chessvine.com

I need help here between two shogi sets! - Games and Video Games

 

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