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Joe Marchak wrote on Sat, May 18, 2002 01:51 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
I've been playing shogi for years here in Japan, both with people and on 
the computer.   There was a program 'xshogi' which was maintained until
1994/1995 and is still available through GNU.   Is anyone looking at 
picking up this package and updating it for Linux?

Steven wrote on Sat, May 18, 2002 02:21 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Check out www.debian.org. They have xshogi running for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. You <i>should</i> be able to compile it for any Linux distribution if you have all of its dependencies. Here's the link to the Debian page for xshogi http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/xshogi.html.

Liz wrote on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 05:45 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
A great site! I have never played Shogi but was researching it as part of a Japanese assignment ( I am an Australian year nine student). Thankyou for providing me with a better knowledge of the game and its history.

Anonymous wrote on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 08:20 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I think some of your graphics for the promoted pieces are mixed up (I.E. Promoted rook as the same Graphic as the Promoted Silver General, which, is not right)

Lachlan wrote on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 04:39 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I noticed that the notation you provide for the pieces differs from that used in Japanese game scores; for example the opening position of the White bishop is given as 'b2' whereas in Japanese notation this position would be given as 2b. I think it's important to use the Japanese notation so that people can use game scores from competitions in Japan.

Sam wrote on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 01:56 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Nice page it really helped me learn to play the game.

AWJ wrote on Fri, Sep 6, 2002 07:37 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Good overview of the game, but the images of the pieces need to be much larger--the Japanese characters on each piece are no more than undistinguishable four-pixel squiggles.

Javier wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 09:43 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
I have discovered that most resources for shogi are in Japanese, and
resources (including web sites and software) in English about shogi are
hard to find.  Here is a collection of essential links about shogi in
English.  It covers virtually every good shogi site and program that
exists in English, and thus is a comprehensive and essential list of
links.

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RULES/INTRODUCTION

http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/rjhare/shogi/intro.htm
http://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html
http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/rules/erules.html
http://www.hollandnumerics.demon.co.uk/SHOGIRULE.HTM
http://boardgames.about.com/library/weekly/aa090399.htm

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STRATEGY

http://www.shogi.net/nexus/ukekata/index.html 
(How to Defend in Shogi)

http://www.shogi.net/kakugen/ 
(Shogi Proverbs)

http://www.shogi.net/noda/quest-all.html 
http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-King/7596/QuestKakuKawari01.htm
(Book on Shogi Openings Part 1 & 2)

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JAVA PLAYING ONLINE

http://www.shogidojo.com/eng/engindex.htm 
(Shogi Club 24)

http://www.javashogi.jp/~board-e/ 
(JavaShogi - need firewall off)

http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=shg 
(Yahoo) 
Very good and in English, but mostly deserted

http://games.yahoo.co.jp/ 
(Japanese Yahoo server)

Shogi PlayByEmail server
http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/

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PLAYING SOFTWARE

http://www.netspace.net.au/~trout/index.html 
(ShogiVariants)

http://www.nexus.carleton.ca/~ttidman/WinShogi/index.html 
(WinShogi)

http://www.zillionsofgames.com/games/index.html 
(Zillions variants - search for 'Shogi' on page) 

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/pmturune/Shocky_e.html 
(Shocky)

http://members.ozemail.com.au/~alpearce/sho.html 
(ShogiGold)

http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html 
ftp://ftp.uni-passau.de/pub/local/shogi
(GNUshogi for Unix)

http://www.m-net.ne.jp/~sekita/english.html 
(Sekita Shogi)

http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~grimberg/SHOGI/SPEAR/spearmain.html 
(Spear Ver.5)

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DATABASE SOFTWARE

http://www.ibridge.be/shogi/ 
(GNSB - GNU Shogi Database Project)

http://foreninger.uio.no/shogi/shogiopening/ 
(ShogiOpening)

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LINKS

http://www.shogi.net/shogi.html
http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~jun1/shogi_link_e.html

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DISCUSSIONS

http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l.html (SHOGI-L mailing list)
fa.shogi (newsgroup which mirrors SHOGI-L)

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GAMES

http://www.shogi.net/ladder/mygames.html 
(amateur)

http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~grimberg/SHOGI/kifu.html 
(professional, annotated)

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TSUME SHOGI (mating problems)

http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/emate/mate.html
http://www.shogi.net/nexus/ladder/help.html

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FEDERATIONS

http://www.platz.jp/~tanase/csf/csf.html
Canadian Shogi Federation

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Apr 13, 2003 10:22 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I have noticed an interesting paradox arising from the positioning of the Soldiers and limited move of the Hon. Horse. In standard Chess and its predecessors the leapers (Knight and, in the early versions, Elephant) are the only non-Pawns that can make the first move. In Shogi the Hon. Horse in the only piece that CANNOT make the first move!

tori watson wrote on Thu, Jul 10, 2003 10:37 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I make go boards chungi sets and shogi sets and have found your site
invaluable in helping me get clear on the finer points of the rules. I
have been making the chungi for a while and have only just started making
shogi sets and have not started to sell them yet. I only decided to make a
shogi set after viewing your site. Like fergus Duniho I have tried to
westerize the pieces for easier play, I had done a similar thing with my
chungi.
The almost 2 completed shogi sets have taken for ever to and i will
probably have to put a fairly high price on them. I make them from maranti
wood with a pacific maple board and am going to try and sell the three
(go, chungi, shogi) on e bay. I sell a small number through game shops in
melbourne australia but with their 100% mark up I dont sell them
regularily and dont make much money. I would like to send you a picture of
the shogi set i have almost finished if that is ok but it will take a bit
longer. I also thought i had played the most exciting chess when i played
chungi, but shogi is probably even better and just gets so dynamic towards
the end as pieces are dropping in etc, i love it. I dont have a computer
so please dont be offended if i do not reply for a while. Once again
excellent site.
Tori watson. [email protected]

Serguei wrote on Fri, Oct 24, 2003 05:49 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
Russian Shogi pages: 
'Shogi In Russia' - http://www.shogi.sp.ru/; 
'Byelorussian Shogi Assotiation' - http://shogi.at.tut.by/default.html
download Cut-out shogi set(pieces, board) + english version; 
'Assotiation Russian Shogi Players' - http://shogi-arsi.narod.ru/;
'Ukrainian Shogi Federation' - http://shogi.in.net.ua/ download cut-out
shogi pieces;
'Vadim Filippov's Shogi Page' - http://www.go.hobby.ru/shogi/

Anonymous wrote on Mon, Nov 17, 2003 09:09 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
yippe

Shogi Student wrote on Tue, Jun 1, 2004 09:22 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Does anyone know, are there Zillions of Games saved-games files (*.zsg) of
interesting, classic, instructive Shogi games available here or elsewhere
on the net?  Would this be a worthwhile project?  It's hard (for me, at
least) to see a list of Shogi game moves and follow it--especially since
I
have to work so hard to recognize the Japanese characters. This is my own
problem, of course, but I wonder if others feel the same way, and if
Zillions saved games provides a solution?  Thanks.

William, Norway wrote on Tue, Jun 15, 2004 06:09 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Shogi is an entertaining game, indeed, but I lack a link to play this on
the  computer. It's hard finding people to play against on the other
side
of the planet, especially ones who speak or read japanese. And I'm too
lazy to do that. Mendoukusai na, if you know what I mean.
Do you have a link to an online version of shogi?

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Jul 4, 2004 06:38 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Thanks for adding the 'see also' link to Tunnelshogi.

BoBo wrote on Thu, Oct 28, 2004 03:32 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
This is an interesting page! Nice background! G2G bye bye!! Luv ya mwa!

Pierre Jason wrote on Wed, Dec 29, 2004 11:30 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
About the program Todai Shogi 

   Hello,

I have Todai Shogi program but all the menus are in Japanese.
Anybody would have the intructions note (comment help) translated into
English?
Either can you advise me a means to understand the menus of this 
software?

            Pierre Jason

Nasmichael Farris wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 02:43 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Thanks for the information!  Manabu Terao, thank you also for the link.

I have never heard of the Invisible Ink Composition, the moves of which
for the shape of a letter or ideogram.  Wonderful idea.

That is one reason why investigation of chess variants is good for the
mind.  New ideas, different cultures, change of perspective.  Thank you.

David Paulowich wrote on Sat, Jan 15, 2005 10:50 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Repetition <p>If the same game position occurs more than three times in a single game, the game is declared a no-contest. The same position means, same players turn, same disposition of pieces on the board and in hand. If a repeated position occurs as a result of repeated checks, the player giving check must not do so a fourth time otherwise that player forfeits the game. <p>This is a quote from: Shogi - Japanese Chess by Roger Hare. See the sidebar above.

Adam Marquis wrote on Tue, Jun 7, 2005 04:07 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
I've implemented my own web interface for playing Shogi, if anybody wants to try it out:<br><br> <a href='http://www.polymathgames.com'>www.polymathgames.com</a>

Petri wrote on Fri, Nov 18, 2005 11:18 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
Dear Nate, John. Jewelled general is in my opinion the most correct traslation of shogi king. The upper symbol 'kanji' in shogi king means jewel or ball. What kind of jewel it is is defined by adding other symbols before it. here is a link where you can look by yourself:

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=7389

But what should shock you is that knight is not honorable horse but a 'cinnamon tree-horse' and lance is 'perfume-chariot'. names probably chosen by phonetic reasons rather than those of meaning


(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Sat, Nov 19, 2005 04:57 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
The name chosen for only phonetic reason should be written in kana!

Marek wrote on Mon, Nov 28, 2005 08:43 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Shogi can now also be played online at Kurnik Online Games (http://www.kurnik.org/) with both traditional and Westernized pieces.

Charles Gilman wrote on Sat, Jan 28, 2006 07:52 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
So 'Jade General' would require prefixing with a third character to specify that it was that kind of jewel, right? Thanks for that clarification, I'll mention it next time I update Generalised Generals.

Dane Rogers wrote on Sat, Feb 4, 2006 04:53 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
How about creating a shogi variant using all the shogi pieces from every game and every piece on the Chess variant pages?! It will probably be about 40 by 40 to 45 by 45 spaces big! Please use all versions of a piece. Please give me credit for the idea . By Dane Rogers. Age 11 and 3/4

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