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  2. History of shogi - Wikipedia

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    The 1443 Shogi Shushu no Zu is lost, but Minase Kanenari's 1591 book Shogi Zu states that he had copied the 1443 book, and that the 1443 book itself was a copy of an older book of which no information survives.) [4] Soon, however, its rules were simplified (removing the weakest pieces) to produce the game of chu shogi (middle shogi), first ...

  3. Shogi - Wikipedia

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    The January 2006 edition of Kindai Shogi (近代将棋) stated that there were 120,000 shogi players in Shanghai. The spread of the game to countries where Chinese characters are not in common use, however, has been slower.

  4. Shoghi Effendi - Wikipedia

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    The young Shoghi, c. 1905 Born in ʻAkká in the Acre Sanjak of the Ottoman Empire in March 1897, Shoghi Effendi was related to the Báb through his father, Mírzá Hádí Shírází, and to Baháʼu'lláh through his mother, Ḍíyáʼíyyih Khánum, the eldest daughter of ʻAbdu'l-Bahá.

  5. History of chess - Wikipedia

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    In the 15th and 16th centuries, yet more shogi variants were described, on large boards and with many more pieces. The 1694 book Shōgi Zushiki details tenjiku shogi (16×16), dai dai shogi (17×17), maka dai dai shogi (19×19), and tai shogi (25×25); it also mentions wa shogi (11×11), ko shogi (19×19), and taikyoku shogi (36×36). It is not ...

  6. Chaturanga - Wikipedia

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    Spread outside India [ edit ] While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess , xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese), makruk (Thai), ouk chatrang (Cambodian) and modern Indian chess .

  7. When did the wildfires start in the LA area? What to know ...

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    Start Date: Jan. 7, 2025. Size in Acres: 10,600. Containment %: 0%. What to know: Burning in the Altadena/Pasadena area, the Eaton Fire has claimed two civilian lives, according to Cal Fire.The ...

  8. Japan Shogi Association - Wikipedia

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    The Japan Shogi Association (日本将棋連盟, Nihon Shōgi Renmei), or JSA, [a] is the primary organizing body for professional shogi in Japan. [5] [6] The JSA sets the professional calendar, negotiates sponsorship and media promotion deals, helps organize tournaments and title matches, publishes shogi-related materials, supervises and trains apprentice professionals as well as many other ...

  9. What's Making L.A. Fires So Bad, Did the City Run Out of ...

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    In just a handful of days, the blazes rapidly grew to some 29,000 acres or 45 square miles, roughly twice the size of Manhattan