Fencer: Ok, thank you. Therefore I have to find a "teacher" first.

flummoxed: Thank you for this answer.

I presume the level is determined beforehand with my future opponent? Or automatically but in that case how?

I am perplexed about:
- How to create a Shogi handicap;
- How to determine the handicap level.

I did'nt found a clue in the help file.

takodori: Here is the webmaster's answer. Below is the question:

"Shogi is not officially launched yet. It's only in the japanese version of
Kurnik for testing purposes.

M.

On Sun, 2 Oct 2005, Paul Grosemans wrote:

> Dear Marek Futrega,
>
> I am new at your club.
>
> In my opinion it is not so amazing there are no shogi player, because this
> game is not mentionned in "select a game to play online:".
> I wonder how the person in another club, who told your club exists, may have
> fond your shogi section.
>
> The shogi design is very beautifull !
>
> I hope this could help to promote this marvellous game.
>
> Best regards,
> Paul Grosemans (GrosPaul)."

takodori: Fantastic game!
In comparison with Japanese players, I can evaluate my lack of boldness, my careful greediness. Yet a thousand games and I probably could play better

ughaibu: 'Domo arigato'. But! This site conducts me in a dead lock

Fencer: Another example there:

http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SHOGI/kifumain.html


The main thing are the signs characters. The pentagonal shapes are nice but secondary, because the orientation of the characters shows the owners.
The above example is exactly what I think about.

[Edited by playBunny to make the link work. it gives a list of recorded matches. Then click any of the Java links to see the board and play through the game.]

Fencer: Because the majority or at least many of the shogi web sites and books are using ... (I don't know the technical name) 'simplified' Japanese pieces, would you be so kind as to propose also this kind of pieces, please?
A clear and superb example is displayed in (you have to scroll down) : http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sh%C3%B4gi so you can watch the signs I write for.
I hope I am not trying to abuse of your amiability but it could be, again, a real improvement.

Fencer: Fine! Now one can invite asiatics players. Alas for me, I lost the email addresses from players at chessvariants. Some are very strong.

takodori: My hypothesis: as the "sente" starts first, I presume, in order to not disturb the used chess players "sente" is named "white".

Fwiffo: I wish to add: don't lost courage because the japanese signs on the pieces. After some games you will become very used. I know about what I say, because personaly I didn't found that so weird after +/- 10 games.
It is also the very sole mean to learn Shogi, all articles are with those characters and Shogi deserved that little training ;-).
Enjoy!!

Fwiffo: Is that kind of web sites you search for?:

http://yamajunn.hp.infoseek.co.jp/

http://www.shogi.net/ISC/

Could that help.

Fencer:

Fencer: I don't know what happened, now I can move and it is done.

The game is the : Game ID: 977044, Match ID: 33243.

Fencer: In my game with Nasmichael, I play G-3b, click move and play another person. After that the same game with Nasmichael comes again without my move G-3b as if I didn't had play.
I have repeated this operation 3 times, allways the same result.

Fencer: when I drop my Gold at 6h in our game, after I clicked "Move to main page" the PC displays a white screen excepting the titles from my browser.
I tried 4 or 5 times, allways the same result.
A little bug???

Fencer: Perfect! Thank you. Now I will ask again for new games.

I am hoping for asian characters soon that say not too later. I am sure accustomed Xiangqi and shogi players are waiting for that ;-).

Anyway, congratulations for the job already done :-)

Fencer: Correct! But actually the Bishop is on the right hand for the player in second ;-)

Fencer, I am quite sure the Bishop and Rook for the player who plays in second are to be inversed. To be clearer, the Bishop should start at b8 and the Rook at b2.

Learning Shogi: Openings and Tips.
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Shogi in the Wikipedias
English, French and German.
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Games, games, games:
A list of recorded matches. Click any of the Java links to see the board and walk through the moves of the game.
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Shogi Rules.
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A Shogi Directory and a Shogi Portal.
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Shogi proverbs and more proverbs.
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TKR101010's Shogi Page.
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A new, very strong Shogi program is Bonanza.
The board has more messages about this program.
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