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Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ i /, [1] Japanese:), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi.
Heian shōgi (平安将棋 "Heian era shogi") is a predecessor of modern shogi.Some form of the game of Chaturanga, the ancestor of both chess and shogi, reached Japan by the 9th century, if not earlier, [1] but the earliest surviving Japanese description of the rules dates from the early 12th century (c. 1120, during the Heian period).
The Sleeve Rook opening is one of the oldest shogi openings appearing around the same time as the Black's Static Rook vs White's Traditional Ranging Rook type of openings and the Wrong Diagonal Bishop (thus predating other old openings such as Fortress, etc).
Its name means large shogi, from a time when there were three sizes of shogi games. Early versions of dai shogi can be traced back to the Kamakura period, from about AD 1230. It was the historical basis for the later, much more popular variant chu shogi, which shrinks the board and removes the weakest pieces.
Shogi notation is the set of various abbreviatory notational systems used to describe the piece movements of a shogi game record or the positions of pieces on a shogi board. A game record is called a 棋譜 kifu in Japanese.
A piece cannot move to a square occupied by a friendly piece (meaning another piece controlled by the moving player). Each piece on the game moves in a characteristic pattern. Pieces move either orthogonally (that is, forward, backward, left, or right, in the direction of one of the arms of a plus sign, + ), or diagonally (in the direction of ...
The central cell is called the Pleasure Garden and is an additional promotion zone, except for the king. It is drawn with a heavy or double border or otherwise made visually distinct. In the modern game, standard shogi pieces are used. Each player wields 18 pieces, the standard shogi set of 20 less one knight and one pawn.
Shogi Planet (Evernote documents): 3rd File · Ishida N-77 variation; 3rd File · Ishida B-77 variation; 3rd File · Ishida vs Climbing Gold variation; Ishida At A Glance; コンピュータ将棋研究Blog: 最強の証明―石田流本組み破りponanza流☖6三金型 · the Ponanza computer shogi engine's Counter-Ishida Static Rook variation