Shogi board UI streamlined

November 16, 2024 by shogishack

Returning visitors may notice that the Shogi-board displays on the site now appear more streamlined. The icon buttons for saving and copying kifu files, as well as the rotating icon for flipping the board, have been removed. However, these features are still accessible. They have been relocated to the context menu. You can access this […]

Handicap study page added

August 5, 2024 by shogishack

Shogi is a game that is not influenced by elements of luck, making it difficult to win against a higher-ranking player. However, it is not enjoyable to play against someone who is holding back. A way to enjoy a serious match on equal terms with a higher-ranking player is through ‘handicap shogi.’ Handicap Shogi is […]

Order of Shogi piece placement

July 21, 2024 by shogishack

I created a new page that explains how the shogi pieces will be placed on the board before the game starts. You can of course place pieces in any order to set up the shogi board for the game, but There are traditional ways to place each piece. Detail is here

Kyokumen.jp and it’s use within our site.

July 11, 2024 by shogishack

Recently I added a reference to Kyokumen.jp a.k.a. KyokumenPedia（局面ペディア） in the resource section of our site. The site name is coined after Kyokumen(局面) (board situation or position) and Encyclopedia. The site is maintained by the same people who runs 81dojo.com. To take a full advantage of the site, I added buttons to our site pages […]

First moves supplemented with opening book that comes with Yaneuraou Shogi AI

June 29, 2024 by shogishack

Opening Book made public by Yaneurao is now used to explain ‘after the first move’ On the section of the site where I explain Shogi’s first moves, there is a summary page which tries to comprehend how the first few moves become various Shogi strategies. As you can guess, It is never possible to list […]

Shogi maze re-imaged

July 27, 2023 by shogishack

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. […]