Today is the day for the 3rd game of the 53rd Ouza sen between Ouza Habu and Challenger Kisei Sato. The match started at 9:00am(JST) today. Shogi Kingdom of Nikkei Net(http://hobby.nikkei.co.jp/shogi/)
is broadcasting the match on weblive. Here is how to watch the gameboard on live.

Go to the page of Shogi Kingdom of Nikkei Net at;
http://hobby.nikkei.co.jp/shogi/

Click the red arrow above the photo of the players.

Then you will have another smaller window of the gameboard on live.

Sato went first. The score is 2-0 led by Habu before this game. 3 wins in advance will decide which will be the title holder of Ouza.

I created a Shogi'S Tournament. Please register you at
http://brainking.com/fr/Tournaments?trg=11519&tri=61428&trnst=0

I have just discovered that we can now play Shogi (in real time) on
Kurnik at
http://www.kurnik.org/intl/en/shogi/

jolat: In order for more shogi players to get to know Kurnik, I think its toppage in English, French, and any other languages other than Japanese should display SHOGI in the list of games. I sent them a suggestion to do so.

If you click in the drop-down menu in top on the right, you
obtain already many translations of the site.
But it is true that for the
moment, I could not play, not having found any adversary, some is the selected languages (even in Japanese).

I created a new Shogi'S Tournament for beginners (NR and less of 1600).
Limit of registration: October 10
Please register you at
http://brainking.com/fr/Tournaments?trg=11553&tri=61537&trnst=0

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)."

Spirou: Thanks for taking care, Spirou.As a matter of fact, I got the same reply from Kurnik:-)

Is this someone knows if it is possible to find a good program of
shogi in english and who can turn under Windows XP?
I know that there is "AI Shogi" and "Todai Shogi" but they are in Japanese.
In France, no salesman proposes some.

jolat:
A new very strong program is Bonanza. You can find more information at this address:
http://forum.shogishop.de/viewtopic.php?t=22

niccar:
Thank you very much!

jolat:
This morning Manabu Terao posted new information about Bonanza on shogi-l list at this address:
http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l/dir05/dirday1007/article051007031049.html

niccar:
Moreover, we can obtain an update of the interface "CSA shogi" to
http://homepage3.nifty.com/floatinghome/
This new interface allows to turn the board and to play in choosing
handicaps.

In that post from Manabu- he mentions a file of games that Bonanza can play. Has anyone downloaded those games? I have Bonanza 1.2 with CSA 3.01 and XT 1.22- but when I downloaded the bin file I can't see how to bring up the games for Bonanza to play. Anyone know what I did wrong? Thanks!

DragonKing:
Do you want to speak about the file "book.bin"?

DragonKing:
I think that the database is used only for the rapid search for correct answer. Probably, developer knows the interior of this base, but does not give to rest the possibility of the survey of possible variants. But it would be very well to look they...

jolat: Yes I downloaded bookbin to the directory of csa- but how do I get those games to come up?

If I understood you well, you think that this file "book.bin" is a database of games which you can view with CSA shogi. If it is that, it does not have anything of it. "Book.bin" is a file which makes it possible the engine "Bonanza" to play the openings correctly.
When you play against SCA, it will answer instantaneously if the moves that you make in the opening are indexed in this file "book.bin".
I hope that I could render comprehensible me (excuse my approximate English: I am French:-)).

jolat: Ah Oui! Je comprends maintenant! Merci beaucuop! (Et, je crois que tu parle anglais bien!)

DragonKing:
Bien, très heureux d'avoir pu t'aider :-)

I created a new Shogi's Tournament for advanced players (1600).
Limit of registration: October 17
If you are interested, register you at
http://brainking.com/fr/Tournaments?trg=11654&trnst=0&tp=69

I am in this tournament- But I dont undertsand who am I playing in this first round? My main page tells me I am in like 15 games at once? How do I bring up these games to make my moves? When I click on my opponets name- I dont get the game board- instaed I get the chart with the names of all the first and second round people who are in the tournament. How do I start to play?

don't click on the opponents name but on 'japanese chess' (the one you would like to play) on the main page

or on one of the "-"'s in the tournament table behind your name

For those who can read German, the following article by Dr. René Gralla in CHESSBASE might be interesting.
http://www.chessbase.de/nachrichten.asp?newsid=4731

I ahve a question about the time limits in the beginner's tournament. Most of my games say 2 days 23 hours right now. What happens when that time is up? I am not a paid member here. Does that make a difference?

Being a pawn doesn't matter for time limits. When you run out of time you lose that game.

playBunny: Thank you for the reply- HOWEVER I don't think I understnad. You said if I don't make A MOVE- you mean to start the game? All these games are in progress- does that mean they must be over by the deadline? I'm trying to undertsand what I have to do not to lose these games. I am not a member. Do I have vacation days? This is very confusing.

DragonKing: I have checked my profile and I see i have 5 vacation days. But, just to clarify- if time runs out- say over night or something like that and It's my turn to move- then afetr all my vacation days are up- I would lose? It seems that to won- all someone has to do is wait till the very last minute and then move- regardless what the situation is on the board. I realize that over the board games always have time limits- but this seems very different to me. My objection is that at least one of my opponents hasn't moved in several days.

playBunny: So each time either SG1 Fan or I move, then the clock starts again? The time I see is the total time remaining for the next move to be made? Regardless of whose move it is? I think I understand now. THANK YOU. That explanation was specific and understanable.

Can anybody inform us fresh news from Tokyo Shogi Festival ?

It will be held on Octorber 22 and 23 in Tokyo. Japan Shogi Association has invited 36 players from 19 countries for the event. The following URL is the list of the participants.
http://www.shogi.or.jp/event/kokusai-sankasya.html
An International tournament and a team tournament with commentary by professional players using a big board and pieces for the audiences are scheduled. In addition, There will be charity educational simultaneous play by professional players, an international shogi conference, the 3rd king league of computer shogi, exhibition of variety of shogi/chess in the world, cultural exchange event of tea ceremony and so forth.
On Octorber 21, a dinner party for the participants is scheduled and the tournament table will be decided by lottery during the party.

Would someone tell me what a "mino" pawn and "mino" castle are? I"m going over a kifu and the notes tell me to watch the attack on the mino pawn. I have also seen references to a mino castle elsewhere. Thank you.

Can you inform Results of first day ?
Thank you.

nosovs: If you want you can ring to hotel "Tokyo East-21", where live participants and where hold ISF. Here phone number 8-10-813-5683-5683 and please connect to participant (Victor live in room 605). I busy now, and I will ring tomorrow.

nosovs: Please, to ring until 22-00 JST (Japan standard time) (-5h in Russia, -7h in Europe)

1 Kagawa 3 5
2 Guangming 3 4
3 Oka 3 3
4 Jensson 2 6
5 Zapara 2 6
6 Mirnik 2 4
7 Heeffer 2 4
8 Shevchuk 2 4
9 Kaufman 2 3
10 Korchitskij 2 3
11 Cheymol 1 7
12 Hartman 1 5
13 Tamashiro 1 5
14 Christoffersen 1 5
15 Rojmahamangkol 1 4
16 van Oosten 1 4
17 Baggio 1 4
18 Hosking 0 6
19 Pfaffel 0 5
20 Wald 0 3

You can watch and replay the game at;
http://202.215.250.252/~ryuoh/banmen.html

Hello,

I created a new Shogi Tournament for all players.
This tournament is addressed to the players who can play at least a
move per day.

Limit of registration: October 28

If you are interested, register you at
http://brainking.com/fr/Tournaments?trg=11934&tri=64782&trnst=0


Greetings

jolat

takodori: Another place with game translation: http://www.shogi.bz/kifu/index.html

DragonKing: go to this site http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SHOGI/kifumain.html and look at game 2 of the 50th Osho match. Tanigawa (at the top) plays a mino. On the other hand, I dont know what "mino pawn" is meant to mean.

ughaibu: Perhaps it is similiar to the vanguard pawn, but in a mino castle somehow? Thank you!

I didn't realize there was a Shogi discussion board here. I'm pretty new to the game but I've gotten a decent understanding of it. I've played a bunch of you and look forward to playing the rest.

Basically, just wanted to say hi! Happy Ooshoo Hunting

How do you find this western adapted pieceset: http://de.geocities.com/caissus2000/Shogi.JPG ?

Caissus: I like it. What can I find it? I see it's a Java applet.

Fencer: http://www.kurnik.org/intl/en/shogi/

Caissus: Thanks. I don't think Kurnik would like it if I steal their graphics. But it's good inspiration to create a similar one.

Caissus: Almost perfect. Would be even better if white pentagon around the pieces is removed and one of sides colored in white. Also it is better to draw upper pieces normal, not up-side-down.

andreas: The upside down direction of the upper pieces is necessary at least for golden and silver generals in order to symbolize their movement abilities.

Fencer: Good point. May be also the Lance should be displayed up-side-down. All other pieces can be displayed in normal way.