Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World

Shogi events in the near future in various areas

* Göteborg Open 2008 is to be held in Sweden on September 20 & 21. For more information, please click the link below;

                                       

                        

                                  Reminder Göteborg Open 20-21st of September 2008

* Thems Festival Japanese Jamboree in London, UK on September 13 and a regular meeting of London Shogi Club on September 27. For more information, please visit the link below;

Shogi London: September 2008 event and meeting

* 14th Colmar Open to be held on September 27 & 28 in France. For more information, please visit the link below;

Reminder: 14th Colmar Open (France) on the 27+28 September 2008

* Shogi in Warsaw, Poland will be held on November 8. For more information, please visit the link below;

Shogi in Warsaw 08.11.08

* Mind Sports Oulu, Finland is to be held on October 11 through 19. For more information, please visit the link below;

Mind Sports Festival Oulu 2008 -- shogi tournament included -

 

Ustream and board live today - Elementary School Girls Meijin-sen

Today is the last day for the 2nd elementary school girls Meijin-sen. Semifinal and final games are scheduled. The thinking time per player is 30 minutes and less than 30 seconds per move after consuming it.

Ustream Live (10:30am for Semifinal, 1:15pm for Final, Japan time) Recorded video-1 | Recorded Video-2 | Recorded video-3

Semifinal Game 1 - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java (Sente = Yamane-san Gote = Naka-san)

Semifinal Game 2 - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java (Sente = Setokawa-sen Gote = Shindo-san)

Final Game  - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

3rd palce deciding match - Kifu for Flash | Kifu for Java

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

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. The third is the winner. You can go to the page of the tournament table by clicking each link of tournament number.

• 2433377     2008-08-30 (sat.) 14:15     (cancelled)
  2433351     2008-08-27 (wed.) 20:15 ---  rex15
  2413866     2008-08-23 (sat.) 14:15      (cancelled)
  2413840     2008-08-20 (wed.) 20:15 --- wwwshogipl
  2394279     2008-08-16 (sat.) 14:15      (cancelled)
  2394253     2008-08-13 (wed.) 20:15 --- rex15
  2374924     2008-08-09 (sat.) 14:15  --- antyshock
  2374898     2008-08-06 (wed.) 20:15 --- linkuei
  2356132     2008-08-02 (sat.) 14:15 --- mugen9x9

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.

 

Shogi tournament schedule in Europe - August & September

Federation of European Shogi Associations(FESA) notified the schedule of the coming shogi tournaments to be held in Europe in this August and September. Rivne Open will be held from August 22 to 24 in Ukraine. 10th Goteborg Open will take place from September 20 to 21 in Sweden. And 14th Calmer Open will be in place from September 27 to 28 in France. For more information, please visit the FESA's page linked below;

European Shogi Calendar

Results of PlayOK(former Kurnik) Official Shogi tournaments held last 3 months

PlayOK(former Kurnik) is an online 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. The third is the winner. You can go to the page of the tournament table by clicking each link of tournament number.

2356106 2008-07-30 (wed.) 20:15 --- linwood408
2337258 2008-07-26 (sat.) 14:15 --- linkuei
2337232 2008-07-23 (wed.) 20:15 (cancelled)
2316730 2008-07-19 (sat.) 14:15 --- mugen9x9
2316704 2008-07-16 (wed.) 20:15 --- antyshock
2297633 2008-07-12 (sat.) 14:15 (cancelled)
2297606 2008-07-09 (wed.) 20:15 --- 1opening
2278539 2008-07-05 (sat.) 14:15 (cancelled)
2278511 2008-07-02 (wed.) 20:15 --- kyoshan
2260479 2008-06-28 (sat.) 14:15 --- linkuei
2260451 2008-06-25 (wed.) 20:15 (cancelled)
2243219 2008-06-21 (sat.) 14:15 (cancelled)
2243191 2008-06-18 (wed.) 20:15 --- rex15
2226930 2008-06-14 (sat.) 14:15 --- marchlion
2226902 2008-06-11 (wed.) 20:15 --- rex15
2210913 2008-06-07 (sat.) 14:15 (cancelled)
2210885 2008-06-04 (wed.) 20:15 --- rex15
2192833 2008-05-31 (sat.) 14:15 --- turok
2192805 2008-05-28 (wed.) 20:15 --- rex15
2175842 2008-05-24 (sat.) 14:15 --- marchlion
2175812 2008-05-21 (wed.) 20:15 (cancelled)
2158926 2008-05-17 (sat.) 14:15 --- niccar
2158896 2008-05-14 (wed.) 20:15 (cancelled)
2139974 2008-05-10 (sat.) 14:15 (cancelled)
2139944 2008-05-07 (wed.) 20:15 (cancelled)
2122540 2008-05-03 (sat.) 14:15 --- antyshock

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.

Chess variant(incl. shogi) tournament to be held on September 28 in Detroit

According to boardgamegeek, the captioned tounrmanet will be held in Detroit on September 28. If you are further interested in this event, please visit the following page;

Chess Variants "mini con" September 28, Detroit. | BoardGameGeek Forums

Kolomiyets dominated ESC/WOSC this year

ESC(European Shogi Championship) and WOSC(World Open Shogi Championship) took place on July 10 through 13 in Pardubice, Czech. Ukrainian Artem Kolomiyets won all the shogi tournaments such as Blitz, ESC and WOSC this year. You can see the full results on the following page linked below. This is one of the official pages of Czech Open.

Czech Open 2008 - international chess and games festival - Pardubice 10.-27.7.2008

Apart from tournament results, the remarkable thing this year is that there are many Hungarian players who took part. I think this is the first time for Hungarian players to participate in ESC/WOSC.

 

ESC/WOSC 2008

According to the shogi-l mailing list, Europepan Shogi Championship(ESC)/World Open Shogi Championshop will be held from July 10 to 13 in Pardubice in Czech Republic.
For more details, please refer to the announcement linked below;

Welcome to Pardubice!

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

PlayOK(former Kurnik) is an online 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. The third is the winner. You can go to the page of the tournament table by clicking each link of tournament number.

1951336 2008-03-01 (sat.) rex15
1970288 2008-03-05 (wed.) rex15
1970321 2008-03-08 (sat.) policia190
1990318 2008-03-12 (wed.) wwwshogipl
1990350 2008-03-15 (sat.) qpq999
2008952 2008-03-19 (wed.) rex15
2008984 2008-03-22 (sat.) takodori
2027822 2008-03-26 (wed.) rex15
2027854 2008-03-29 (sat.) schluchter

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.

Results of Kurnik Official Shogi tournaments held last February

Kurnik is an online gamesite where you can play shogi in various time control. Here is the list of the captioned tournaments held there. First column is the tournament number, Second is the date. The third is the winner. You can go to the page of the tournament table by clicking each link of tournament number.

1884659 2008-02-02 (sat.) trinca
1898678 2008-02-06 (wed.) rex15
1898711 2008-02-09 (sat.) rex15
1913783 2008-02-13 (wed.) rex15
1913816 2008-02-16 (sat.) trinca
1932134 2008-02-20 (sat.) rex15
1932167 2008-02-23 (wed.) charlesgo
1951303 2008-02-27 (sat.) rex15

Kurnik shogi official tournaments take place every Wednesday and Sunday. The more detailed schedule of the coming tournaments can be found in the lower part of Kurnik shogi login page. For more general information about Kurnik official tournament, please read the page about tournaments.