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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.
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.
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)
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.
Nice page it really helped me learn to play the game.
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.
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. ------------------ 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 ------------------ 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) ------------------ 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/ ------------------ 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) ------------------ DATABASE SOFTWARE http://www.ibridge.be/shogi/ (GNSB - GNU Shogi Database Project) http://foreninger.uio.no/shogi/shogiopening/ (ShogiOpening) ------------------ LINKS http://www.shogi.net/shogi.html http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~jun1/shogi_link_e.html ------------------ DISCUSSIONS http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l.html (SHOGI-L mailing list) fa.shogi (newsgroup which mirrors SHOGI-L) ------------------ GAMES http://www.shogi.net/ladder/mygames.html (amateur) http://www.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp/~grimberg/SHOGI/kifu.html (professional, annotated) ------------------ TSUME SHOGI (mating problems) http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/emate/mate.html http://www.shogi.net/nexus/ladder/help.html ------------------ FEDERATIONS http://www.platz.jp/~tanase/csf/csf.html Canadian Shogi Federation
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!
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]
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/
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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.
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?
Thanks for adding the 'see also' link to Tunnelshogi.
This is an interesting page! Nice background! G2G bye bye!! Luv ya mwa!
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
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.
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.
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>
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
The name chosen for only phonetic reason should be written in kana!
Shogi can now also be played online at Kurnik Online Games (http://www.kurnik.org/) with both traditional and Westernized pieces.
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.
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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