Shogi Shack Blog
Shogi maze re-imaged

July 27, 2023 by shogishack
Tagged: New Feature
In 2010, I was contacted by members of Shogi France. One of their active members has just created a shogi site with a page that showed variety of opening moves. They offered to include the content in our site as this will nicely compliment with our site pages that explains what piece to move first. […]
Using real Shogi pieces
July 12, 2023 by shogishack
Many of the Shogi fans overseas are probably using Online platform to enjoy Shogi, because Shogi fans are few and apart from each other. You may have never touched actual shogi pieces. In Japan, there are Shogi dojos in many places where people play against each other using actual Shogi pieces. The YouTube video here […]
Free tesuji book from mainichi navigation
May 19, 2023 by shogishack -2 comments
There are two tesuji books that I wish we had English translated version available. They are called らくらく次の一手 1 and 2, published by Japan Shogi federation. The title roughly translates to “easy next move.” These books targeted beginner players and taught you basic Tesujis in forms of quiz that asks you for a next move. […]
New Section added
April 28, 2023 by shogishack -1 comment
Just added a new section “Suji and Tesuji” to the site. When I think about improving one’s Shogi play, There are three pillars that makes up one’s skill. Item #1 and #2 has been always a part of this site. for #3, we had Pawn Samplers where we looked at various Pawn Tesujis but there […]
Identifying Japanese Shogi pieces.
April 20, 2023 by shogishack
My recommendation when learning Shogi, is to get familiarize yourself with piece with Japanese character on it. There are some symbolic shogi set and westernized set, but vast majority of Shogi material available online and in books form all uses Japanese characters. People who get used to them often says that’s easy once you remember […]
Incremental improvement
March 18, 2023 by shogishack -2 comments
When I started this site in 2008, I used “Kifu for flash” by Kakinoki software to display shogi board and piece moves. When flash player medium started to lose its popularity due to security concern, I wrote a JavaScript alternative and start removing flash player contents. by end of 2020, flash player was no more […]
Old shack needed some repair
February 19, 2023 by shogishack
Time flies and just like a old house, this web site needed some repair. In the meantime, Shogi world have evolved. Some of the new strategy has emerged. Although principles of shogi play has not changed, I have to figure out how I can update the site.
Shogi for Youtube page just added
September 5, 2020 by shogishack
I was going to add some Youtube resources in Internet resources page. the page itself is already quite lengthy and I think I need start thinking about folding the content quite soon. So I realized Youtube section needed its own page. It is currently available as a sub menu in Internet resources page. Expect this […]
Qinoa Syougi link added
July 4, 2020 by shogishack
One of the link that was popular at the time was Ham Shogi where you could play shogi game with computer. No pressure, use as much time you want to make your moves and so on, and it was very friendly to novice shogi player. However, this application was based on Adobe flash player and […]
7th year update
June 29, 2020 by shogishack -1 comment
It has been 7 year since my last post. My work life was getting crazy and I really did not have time to study Shogi for the longest time. Now because of the COVID situation, I have some extra time but no money :). So I try to tweak the site UI and the first […]