Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Shogi Tactics #0014

Sente's turn to play.This is a Yagura endgame position where Gote took the 13 pawn with Lx13 just after Sente had dropped a Pawn on 13 engaging in the edge attack(For Firefox users, please forward one move from the displayed position to have the problem. Sorry, this cannot be displayed on some smartphones). Please find a 9-move-mate-line from here. You have two silvers in hand and your attacking pieces on the board are the 41 Tokin, 68 Bishop, 25kNight, 19 Lance and some more Pawns which are sufficient enough to deliver a mate with the pieces in hand. This problem and the next ones will show you how effective the edge attack will be when Gote's Silver does not come to 24 and stays on 33 in Yagura games. I think you will find the importance of Gote's S-24 to protect the edge when Sente tries to attack the edge file with N-25 paradoxically through these problems. You can replay the answer line by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

Shogi Tactics #0013

Sente's turn to play.This is a Yagura endgame position where Gote took the 44 Pawn with Sx44(For Firefox users, please forward one move from the displayed position to have the problem. Sorry, this cannot be displayed on some smartphones). Please find the 9-move-mate-line from here. It is one of the patterns to practice repeatedly to help you when you approach to the King in Yagura Castle. You can replay the answer line by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

Shogi Boardlive Schedule for Week 16 2015

Here is a shogi boardlive schedule for the week 16.

Saturday, April 18, To start at 10:00am(JST), expected to end - around 5:00pm(JST)

Queen Kato Momoko vs Joryu 3rd dan Ueda Hatsumi

The second game of the 8th Mynavi Joshi Open

Liveboard - https://book.mynavi.jp/shogi/mynavi-open/result/8/mynavi201504180101.html

Shogi Tactics #0012

Sente's turn to play.This is a Yagura endgame position where Gote dropped a Pawn on 12(For Firefox users, please forward one move from the displayed position to have the problem. Sorry, this cannot be displayed on some smartphones). Please find the next move which will lead Gote's King to mate. You have lots of pieces in hand such as a Bishop, Silver and kNight. You can replay the answer line by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

Shogi Tactics #0011

Sente's turn to play. This is a Yagura endgame position where Gote played G43-42 to try to let the 41 promoted Bishop go away(For Firefox users, please forward one move from the displayed position to have the problem. Sorry, this cannot be displayed on some smartphones). Please find a three-move-approach to Gote's King in Yagura castle. This problem is to show that it is easier to approach the King in Yagura when your Rook file is semi-opened comparing with the situation that your Rook pawn still stays on the Rook file such as a 25 or 26 pawn. You can replay the answer line by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

Shogi Tactics #0010

Sente's turn to play. This is a Yagura endgame position where Gote played K-22 from 31(For Firefox users, please forward one move from the displayed position to have the problem.). Please find the best move in the next. You can replay the answer line by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

Shogi Tactics #0009

Sente's turn to play. This is an endgame position where Gote dropped a pawn on 63 to harass Sente's 64 Bishop.(For Firefox users, please forward one move from the displayed position to have the problem.). It is a created, partial position to tell you about one of the thematic approaches to the King in Yagura castle. You can encounter a similar position in your real Yagura games when you dropped a kNight on 24 and your opponent ignored it. Please find the quickest five-move-approach to the King from here. You can replay the answer line by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

The source game of the #0006, 0007 & 0008

Here is the source game of the problems of #0006, 0007, and 0008 for you to replay.

Shogi Tactics #0008

Sente's turn to play. This is an endgame position where Gote dropped a kNight on 35. When you have this sort of position, you are usually in byoyomi and it is extremely hard to read through all the variations. Your instinct may tell you that the N*35 is a threatmating move such as Nx27+ Kx27 G*26..., since Gote's 85 horse and 66 pawn are likely to work eventually well. So what should you do? The ideal proceeding is to make forced checks and finally make a threatmating move with simultaneously neutralizing Gote's possible mate threat. I let GPSfish calculate this position for 10 minutes on my PC, it evaluated more than 78 million positions but it failed to find the correct move and, very interestingly furthermore, it said the position was slightly favors Gote. So if you find the right answer, you can beat one of the strongest machines in this position! Actually, it is a problem of Hisshi in eleven. You can replay the answer by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.

Shogi Tactics #0007

Sente's turn to play. This is an endgame position where Gote dropped a Silver on 33 to avoid the checkmate with S-22+ or +B-22. Please find a hisshi(brinkmate) in three from here. This is based on an actual game. Please take your special attention what pieces Gote has in hand. You can replay the answer by clicking the arrow directing to the right under the diagram. Also, an exclamation mark sometimes appears there on a specific move during your replay, then click it and you can read my comments on that move.