Ham-Shogi change’s its home

November 4, 2010 by shogishack

Ham-Shogi has it’s new url.  Link has been updated accordingly.Thanks Takodori-san for letting me know!

Tsume Shogi Paradise adds English!

September 22, 2010 by shogishack -2 comments

The admin of the Tsume Shogi paradise was working on adding English form to his site.  Now the "phase 1" is complete.  There is an English form to submit their monthly Quiz, as well as "about this site " page which explains about their site.  Be sure to check it out  at the link below […]

How Strong are you?

September 18, 2010 by shogishack

Ever wonder how strong you became of Shogi play? If you believe you might be already at a strength of Dan player,　There is a way to find out. I have added a couple of pages to explain how to take assessment test for shogi online. Detail is here

Nice Shogi Database

July 24, 2010 by shogishack

One of the readers of this site told me of the nice shogi database site.  This is in French shogi fedration site.   http://www.shogi.fr/web/shogi/shogi_fr.nsf/vwTemplate1/97DDCCD6F60EF29BC125769700660CE4   You can also get to English version of the same database   http://shogimaze.free.fr   Shogi record is drawn from Japanese shogi database but this is still an amazing accomplishment. You can […]

Learn Short Tsume Problems!

June 27, 2010 by shogishack

I was watching other people’s play on playOK.  Both are R1500 level players and they were playing very good end games .  Then the game finally came to where the white guy tipped the scale and it was about to end. The white player was winning.  Note that both of players were on byoyomi. Then I […]

Translation sites

February 12, 2010 by shogishack

My friend,  who does not speak Japanese said these two sites help decyphering Japanese text on the WEB.   These are the 2 sites that I use: http://www.translation-services-usa.com/japanese.php – this site does not run as quickly and requires smaller fragments of the text to be able to translate, but I find it gives a better […]

Doraemon shogi board introduced

January 20, 2010 by shogishack

I leaned from Takodori-san’s Japanese blog that Epoch Japan is planning to release Shogi board and pieces arranged with Doraemon characters on it. (if you are deep into J-culture, then you know who Draemon is.  If not, just look up in Wikipedia or google the name.)   See the image here   The woman in the […]

Invincible castle. Really?

January 12, 2010 by shogishack

This is a well known mystery.  A certain potion of Shogi beginners end up with this castling.  It seems as if they come up to this with their own idea,, but it is not the first time in Shogi history this castling was played.  There is even a name for this formation.  It is called "Invincible […]