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 […]

The art of one minute Shogi Blitz

August 8, 2013 by shogishack -2 comments

I thought this kind of game play was only possible in Manga World (81 diver – There is an episode of main character playing one minute Shogi play). This maybe an old news for some of you, but I have just found in the video clip on Youtube where professional players were actually doing one […]

Shogi maze puzzles added

December 12, 2012 by shogishack

Its been a long time since I started to receive weekly email newsletters  from the site owner of Shogitown.com.   This site was established for more than 10 years ago, and is run by a person who also runs real dojo or Shogi Salon in Saitama prefecture, Japan.   (when I first started this site, […]

Some more tsumeshogi problems

November 18, 2012 by shogishack

Some site page update in recent months. More tsumeshogi added.  See the “More tsumeshogi problems” under “Tsume and Hisshi” menu. Note that the board only uses Javascript to move pieces.  In another word, this part of the page should be functional under iPad and Android ver 4.1 and above (yes, Adobe is  ditching tablet support […]

Internet site listing added

April 8, 2012 by shogishack -1 comment

One could call this a bug. My site never listed a link to online shogi playing sites.  This is partially because when I started this site, I myself knew only one place to play shogi, kurnick.org. This site since changed its name to PlayOK.com.  In the meantime, we have seen the birth of 81dojo.com.   […]