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 […]

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 […]