"Shogi" fans have a new destination to flock to in the capital where they can play the traditional game and attend commentary and lecture sessions to improve their games. The Japan Shogi ...

Shogi, a 20-piece board game popular in Japan, is similar to chess as two players alternate in moving one piece at a time to checkmate the opponent’s king. But unlike chess, players can reuse ...

Madoka Kitao, a Japanese professional shogi player, explaining the game Source: Madoka Kitao Shogi, Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game native to Japan. As each Shogi piece has ...

A match during the top-level Meijin shogi ranking tournament on Dec. 13 came to an unusual end when 40-year-old Akira ...

Pocket’s January-announced Hifumi Katou-Supervised Hifumin’s Shogi ... 20 in Japan for 4,800 yen, the developer announced. Hifumi Katou-Supervised Hifumin’s Shogi Dojo is a shogi game ...

A native of Tokyo, Kitao developed enthusiasm for shogi, as a second-year senior high school student, when the game, a Japanese answer to chess, became popular among her classmates. She frequently ...

Former shogi Meijin title holder Hifumi Kato, 84, speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 21, 2024, after receiving a ...

My favourite AI in culture project at the moment is…besides my own work, Shogi AI. Shogi is Japanese chess and Shogi AI is already better at the game than humans, but more importantly, AI has made ...