Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

BCMShogi - shogi analysis software

I would like to recommend the readers of Windows users to read the following thread of BCM shogi.

Shogi prospect :: View topic - BCM Shogi

In case you have played a game on playok or shogidojo 24, you can save the game to your hard disk, open it in BCM and let the engine do the analysis for you. It’s absolutely amazing what it finds out. By the way, in order to load playok files you have to save the .txt files and then change the file ending (e.g. to esn) as you won’t be able to load the txt file directly. So when your original file was named “game.txt”, changing the name to “game.esn” will allow you to open the file in BCM. For shogi club 24, you first have to copy the game notation and save it with the help of an editor (unicode). After changing the file ending to kif you should be able to load these games, too.

Some minor correction about the file endings posted to the comment field of this entry by rick7. I'm copying and pasting it below.(added on Dec. 17)

Hi Takodori, thanks for the link. Just one little correction:
I originally wrote that the file endings should be changed to esn in order to replay playok games. This actually works but I was told that psn is the correct choice, so "game.txt" should be changed to "game.psn" instead of "game.esn".

Here are the links to top page of BCMShogi and some content pages;

BCMShogi

Screeshots

Shogi Program compare

Shogi Program types

Here is the link to BSMShogi promotion video on Youtube.

YouTube: BCMShogi

Kakinoki Shogi Software

Today I found the captioned website. Here is the link.

Kakinoki Shogi Software

It seems you can currently download Kifu for Macintosh and K55 for iPhone. The former is Kifu(Shogi gamerecords) management software and the latter is minishogi program which you can play against computer.

I hope Kifu for Windows will be avaialble in English version in the near future.

Search results with shogi - ACM's GUIDE TO COMPUTING LITERATURE

Here is the link to the search results with the keyward of shogi using ACM's GUIDE TO COMPUTING LITERATURE. I guess this search page is useful to game programmers who are interested in computor shogi, though I'm not a game programmer.

Results (page 1): shogi

Blog titled "superhero shogi"

I think many of the readers of this blog might be interested in the contents of superhero shogi. Here is the link to each entry so far today.

superhero shogi: Basic guide to Kifu for Windows

superhero shogi: how to replay your shogi games as shockwave flash animations on internet explorer

superhero shogi: how to replay, save and convert shogi gamescores from internet games

superhero shogi: Lots of free shogi software from the Land of the Rising Sun

superhero shogi: playing shogi on your pocket pc

You can play a shogi game in Yakuza2

Here is a link to a review aboutYakuza2 for Sony Playstation 2. According to it, you can play a shogi game there.

• Yakuza 2 Playstation 2 Sony PS2 « Review Games Console : Review Games PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Wii

Xbox Live Arcade Shotest Sales(13/09/08 & 20/09/08)

Here are the links to Xbox Live Arcade Sales by By Benjamin Schlichter

Xbox Live Arcade Sales, 9/13/08 + First Day | VG Chartz.com

Shotest Shogi was in the 34th place, 1,171 units were sold in the week.

Xbox Live Arcade Sales, 9/20/08 - FF2 5.7k, DM 2.9k | VG Chartz.com

Shotest Shogi was in the 57th place, 504 units were sold in the week.

Bernhard asks for your feedback about his project of writing Shogi Viewer/Editor

According to shogi-l, Bernhard asks for your feedback about his project of writing Shogi Viewer/Editor. For further information, please read his message posted to shogi-l linked below;

BCM-Shogi

360Voice.com

I think the following page seems to be of help you to find friends or opponents through Shotest Shogi for Xbox360, as it contains the information of Recent Shotest Gamers, Want to Play, and Game Owners.

360voice Game: Shotest Shogi

Interesting artcile I read today(September 13)

Today I found the following article interesting.

superhero shogi: how to replay, save and convert shogi gamescores from internet games

It explains how to do the captioned actions using shogidokoro which is a free User Interface to download.

Links to the responses about Shotest I read today(September 11)

Here are the links to the responses about Shotest I read today on September 11.

frankiii's blog: Shotest Shogi Now Available on XBLA

Shotest Shogi Review (Xbox 360)

Xbox.com | Xbox LIVE Arcade - took yr time

Advanced Tsume Shogi 5 - Xbox360Achievements.org