Here are links to the articles and blogs I found interesting to read these days. I'm copying a few first sentences of them under each link. If you are interested, click one or some of them to read full stories.
The Japanese chess variant Shogi is the most popular board game in the country. In recent years some of its greatest contemporary champions have started taking up chess, and two intersting experiments were recently conducted: a top GM played a chess simul against two Shogi masters, and the top Shogi champion a three-board Shogi handicap against chess masters. Illustrated report with games.
One could call this a bug. My site never listed a link to online shogi playing sites. This is partially because when I started this site, I myself knew only one place to play shogi, kurnick.org. This site since changed its name to PlayOK.com. In the meantime, we have seen the birth of 81dojo.com.
“Shogi” or “Japanese chess” is the two-player board game. Playing chess can improve players’ logical thinking skills because the players will plan for invasion ingeniously. Surely, it can make them joyful and excited with the result when the game ends. Moreover, playing chess brings to a good relationship between them, so the players will have many new friends. Koranat Saengwat, my friend, love playing Shogi. I see he always play Shogi on websites although he must prepare for the final exam. Therefore, I decide to interview him because I would like to know more details about his experience.
Sakura Matsuri will take place April 28- 29, with or without the blooms.
The topic of Shogi, or Japanese chess, is something I haven’t written about in a long, long time in this blog.1 Search the blog for “Shogi” and you’ll see what I mean.
In fact, most of the posts I’ve written were imported from my previous blog, the Level 8 Buddhist. I played avidly for years with people in my office (all non-Japanese like me), and sometimes with Japanese friends and family. However, when I moved to Dublin, I had fewer opportunities to play, and when I came back to the US, I lost all opportunities because I moved to a different team within the same company. So, my posts about Shogi died off. I was never very good anyway.
In this Shukan Shogi report the fourth game of the Kio match between
Kubo and Goda. Here is the game with comments:
In this Shukan Shogi report two title match games: the fifth game of the
Osho match between Kubo and Sato and the third game of the Kio match
between Kubo and Goda. Here are the games with comments:
KyodoWARSAW — Karolina Styczynska, a 20-year-old Polish university student, is dreaming of an unlikely career in Japan: becoming one of only a handful of foreign professional "shogi" players.
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