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Reminder - "Biggest" PlayOK shogi tournament on December 20

This is just a reminder. "Biggest" on-line PlayOK shogi tournament will be in place at 19:00(Central European Time on December 20, which means sometime in the afternoon in US of the same day.). It will be 6 round Swiss paring tournament with thinking time of 7 minutes and byoymi 30 seconds per move after consuming it. Since this is a private tournament organized by wwwshogipl, you do not have to have rating to participate the tournament. It's possible to obtain PlayOK account now and take part. So do not hesitate. Just go to the tournament place before the start time through the announcment page below;

PlayOK.com - tournament #2759251 (shogi)

For more details, please visit to the thread of the tournament at Shogi Prospect Forum.

Shogi prospect :: View topic - 20.12.2008 19.00 The biggest tournament on kurnik

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

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.

• 2604119 2008-11-01 (sat.) 14:15 --- mugen9x9
• 2623585 2008-11-05 (wed.) 20:15 --- (cancelled)
• 2623611 2008-11-08 (sat.) 14:15 --- sessyufree
• 2643612 2008-11-12 (wed.) 20:15 --- linkuei
• 2643638 2008-11-15 (sat.) 14:15 --- take5
• 2664875 2008-11-19 (wed.) 20:15 --- (cancelled)
• 2664901 2008-11-22 (sat.) 14:15 --- ezekielrage
• 2685685 2008-11-26 (wed.) 20:15 --- (cancelled)
• 2685711 2008-11-29 (sat.) 14:15 --- gusamana

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.

A big on-line tournament is planned on December 20

A big on-line tournament is planned on December 20 at PlayOK.com. The tournament is to start at 19:00(Central European Time) which is SundaySaturday afternoon in the American continents. There wll be 6 rounds and the thinking time per player is 7 minutes and less than 30 seconds per move after consuming it. For further details, please visit the post from the organizer linked below;

The biggest tournament on kurnik

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.

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.

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

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

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.

• 2509711     2008-09-27 (sat.) 14:15   (cancelled)
  2509685     2008-09-24 (wed.) 20:15  (cancelled)
  2491083     2008-09-20 (sat.) 14:15   linkuei
  2491057     2008-09-17 (wed.) 20:15  linwood408
  2472621     2008-09-13 (sat.) 14:15   linkuei
  2472595     2008-09-10 (wed.) 20:15  gluzd
  2453159     2008-09-06 (sat.) 14:15   mugen9x9
  2453133     2008-09-03 (wed.) 20:15  wwwshogipl

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.

Göteborg Open result and photos

Goteborg Open was held in last weekend in Sweden. There were 21 participants from five countries such as France, Italy, Norway, Poland, China as well as Sweden. Here are the links to the result and photo

Göteborg Open

Goteborg Open 2008 - a set on Flickr

Chess variant event is scheduled on September 28 in Michigan

I found the following notice in Chess.com.

 

                        

                                  Variants - Chess960, Xiangqi, others - Event- Chess.com

A tournament of Chess variants

Start Date/Time: Sep 28, 2008 at 12:00 pm
End Date/Time: Sep 28, 2008 at 5:00 pm

      

We will play Chess960, Xiangqi, Shogi, Makruk, and a modern abstract strategy game called Cannon. Each game will be played in a three round Swiss format. G40 time controls.

If you are interested, please click the link above for further information.

Ustream and board live today - LPSA's 16th One Day Tournament

Today is the day for LPSA's 16th one day tournament "GSP Cup". This time the participants are not professional players but strong ama players and LPSA's teaching staffs(8 players in total).

 Ustream-live - Channel 1

Quarter final started at 10:00am - Sentsui Takako(Sente) vs Souma Misaki  Kifu for Flash

Quarter final to start at 12:00am - Sentsui Naoko(Sente) vs Shindo Nina | Kifu for Flash

Semi final to start at 2:00pm - Souma Misaki(Sente) vs Sentsui Naoko Kifu for Flash

Final to start at 4:00 pm - Kasai Yuki vs Souma Misaki Kifu for Flash

< Board 2 >

Started at 10:00am - Kasai Yuki(Sente) vs Ono Yukari  Kifu for Flash

Quarter final to start at 12:00am - Suzuki Mari(Sente) vs Naka Nanami Kifu for Java

Semi final to start at 2:00pm - Kasai Yuki8Sente) vs Naka Nanami Kifu for Flash

Here is the link to the official one day tournament blog by LPSA(Contains lots of pictures though in Japanese)

1 Day Tournament by LPSA