Hello everyone. I've begun a series of lessons/reference pages on how to play Shogi on the forums. You can find them here. So far I only have a thread about the Shogi board up. While I don't think I can do as good of a job with my lessons as Hidetchi has with his videos, I do believe having a quick reference to Shogi rules in English will help many people learn to play Shogi.
Last night I also posted a game I played on PlayOK along with my own commentary and analysis of it. It wasn't one of my best played games at all but I wanted to make note of it so I could see what I did wrong.
Sunday, May 31, 2009
Saturday, May 30, 2009
LA Shogi forum
Hello, everyone! I have created a forum for Louisiana Shogi so that my readers may discuss Shogi with each other outside of the comments.
Louisiana Shogi Forum
Thank you very much to anyone who's reading this and double thank you if you decide to join the forum!
Louisiana Shogi Forum
Thank you very much to anyone who's reading this and double thank you if you decide to join the forum!
Welcome to Louisiana Shogi!
Hello everyone. Welcome to my new blog, Louisiana Shogi, which I will be using to promote Shogi in the USA and especially Louisiana. I'm not a very experienced player (I've been playing for less than two months) but I think I understand the game enough to blog about it. I'll use this blog primarily to discuss new strategies I run into, games I play, updates about the Shogi world (especially if I find out of things occurring in the US), mate problems, along with anything else I feel I should give an update about.
With this first entry I feel I should give an introduction to Shogi for English speakers who have not run into it yet. Shogi is the Japanese variant of chess, which plays on a 9x9 board and plays with flat, wedge-shaped pieces with Japanese writing on them instead of the sculpted figures that chess uses. It has more pieces than chess and utilizes a "drop" rule, in which a player can return to the board any piece he or she has captured throughout the course of the game, like in Crazyhouse.
Your first stop as an English speaker interested in playing Shogi should definitely be Youtube, where you can find Hidetchi's channel. Hidetchi is an amateur Japanese Shogi player who has made multiple series of videos in English to help people around the world to learn Shogi. His series How to Play Shogi shows the very basics of the game, from how pieces move to basic strategy. For players who are past the level of beginner, he has a video series on Shogi Openings and Shogi Exercises, as well as demonstrations of Famous Shogi Games and Famous Mate Problems.
You should learn everything you need to know to start playing from Hidetchi's videos, the only thing you have to do after that is actually start playing! You can pick up your own set, or, if you don't have anyone to play with, you can play online at PlayOK or Shogi Dojo 24 (Shogi Dojo is in Japanese, but it has an English link in the top right corner).
Along with playing games, you can also practice Shogi by solving mate problems. The best English mate problem site I've come across is Ricoh's Mate Problems, which, while it isn't interactive, is very good as it hides the answer until you're ready for it.
I think that's about all I should put for one entry, look forward to more entries!
English Shogi Resources:
Shogi - Wikipedia
Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World
Yamajunn's Shogi News
Wikishogi by Yamajunn
Shogi.net
Shogi.pl
Shogi Shack
Reijer Grimbergen's Shogi Page
Shogi Vault
Ricoh Shogi Club
Shogi Prospect
Kohey's Tsume-Shogi Web
Kifu by Opening Strategy
A huge thanks to Hidetchi for the huge list of resources. ^^-
With this first entry I feel I should give an introduction to Shogi for English speakers who have not run into it yet. Shogi is the Japanese variant of chess, which plays on a 9x9 board and plays with flat, wedge-shaped pieces with Japanese writing on them instead of the sculpted figures that chess uses. It has more pieces than chess and utilizes a "drop" rule, in which a player can return to the board any piece he or she has captured throughout the course of the game, like in Crazyhouse.
Your first stop as an English speaker interested in playing Shogi should definitely be Youtube, where you can find Hidetchi's channel. Hidetchi is an amateur Japanese Shogi player who has made multiple series of videos in English to help people around the world to learn Shogi. His series How to Play Shogi shows the very basics of the game, from how pieces move to basic strategy. For players who are past the level of beginner, he has a video series on Shogi Openings and Shogi Exercises, as well as demonstrations of Famous Shogi Games and Famous Mate Problems.
You should learn everything you need to know to start playing from Hidetchi's videos, the only thing you have to do after that is actually start playing! You can pick up your own set, or, if you don't have anyone to play with, you can play online at PlayOK or Shogi Dojo 24 (Shogi Dojo is in Japanese, but it has an English link in the top right corner).
Along with playing games, you can also practice Shogi by solving mate problems. The best English mate problem site I've come across is Ricoh's Mate Problems, which, while it isn't interactive, is very good as it hides the answer until you're ready for it.
I think that's about all I should put for one entry, look forward to more entries!
English Shogi Resources:
Shogi - Wikipedia
Takodori's Entrance to Shogi World
Yamajunn's Shogi News
Wikishogi by Yamajunn
Shogi.net
Shogi.pl
Shogi Shack
Reijer Grimbergen's Shogi Page
Shogi Vault
Ricoh Shogi Club
Shogi Prospect
Kohey's Tsume-Shogi Web
Kifu by Opening Strategy
A huge thanks to Hidetchi for the huge list of resources. ^^-
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