I found the following event at Chiddingstone castle in U.K.

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Wednesday, 7th July until Sunday, 8th September

Loan of a Japanese 'Shogi Board'

Shogi Board on loan from the Horniman Museum in London. A beautiful, rare ceramic Shogi board (a variant of chess) will be on loan as one of our many events to celebrate the 400th Anniversary of the establishment of trade with Japan (1613-2013).


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Wednesday, 31st July at 11.30 am

Ceramics and Chess in Asia" Talk

In relation to the loan of a Japanese shogi board from the Horniman Museum in London that is to be exhibited in the Japanese Room from 7th July to 8th September, Rose Kerr, former Keeper of the Far Eastern Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum, President of the Oriental Ceramic Society and Honorary Associate of the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge will be giving a fascinating talk in the Board Room entitled 'Ceramics and Chess in Asia'. Booking is essential on 01892 872747 or email curator@chiddingstonecastle.org.uk. Free with an admission ticket to the Castle.


Source:http://www.chiddingstonecastle.org.uk/whatson

Takodori(the real name is Manabu Terao) will be in Kosice from May 24-27 to help Slovak Shogi Association with shogi program as one of the event of European Capital of Culture. Please come to Kosice if you are interested, the details can be found
http://www.facebook.com/events/145337232316950/
http://www.kosice2013.sk/en/exhibition-of-japanese-culture-bonsai-go-shogi/

Also, there will be an Igo program where professional Igo Player 2-dan Murakami joins.

The US Shogi Championship will be held on April 2 & 3 in Philadelphia. The details can be found at the blog of the organizer linked below;
http://shogimiscellania.blogspot.com/2011/02/2011-us-shogi-championship-in.html

The US Shogi Championship 2011 will be held on April 2 &

Here are the information of them. One is European Shogi Championship/World Shogi Open Championship in Germany and the other is International Shogi Festival which has been held every three years since 1999 in Japan but to be held outside Japan for the first time of shogi history in Paris.

ESC/WOSC 2011 (englisch) --- to be held on July 14 through 17.
http://www.shoginet.de/component/content/article/63-escwosc-2011-en.html

International Shogi Festival 2011 -- to be held on October 27-30
http://isf.shogi.fr/#En

Good article on One-turn loss Bishop Exchange has been translated into English on Shogipedia at http://wiki.81squareuniverse.com/index.php?title=Lectures_on_the_Latest_Strategies,_Chapter_1

DragonKing: You're welcome. Good to know that's exactly you were looking for.

A good article about one-turn loss bihsop exchange is available to read here. It's the translation of the chapter one of the book written by 6-dan Kiyokazu Katsumata.

http://wiki.81squareuniverse.com/index.php?title=Lectures_on_the_Latest_Strategies,_Chapter_1

DragonKing:
I think this is it.
http://shogi-isps.org/whtats_new_isps/2008/08/opening-strateg.html

The tentative version of the book "Silicon Valley kara Shogi wo Miru" was translated into English to read through the following linked pages.

Top page of the project
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/

Preface - 'Non-playing Shogi Fan' Declaration
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Preface

Chapter 1 - Yoshiharu Habu and 'Changing Modern Shogi
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-1

Chapter 2 - (about Sato Yasumitsu and the commentary of 1st game of
79th Kisei-sen in the year 2008)
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-2

Chapter 3 (about the enjoyment of watching Shogi)
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-3

Chapter 4 (about Fukaura Koichi)
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-4

Chapter 5 (about the commentary of 1st game of 21st Ryuoh-sen in the
year 2008)
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-5

Chapter 6 (about Watanabe Akira)
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-6

Chapter 7 (Table talk between Habu and the author)
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Chapter-7

Postscript
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Postscript

Acknowledgments
http://modernshogi.pbworks.com/Acknowledgments

The book containing 291 pages was released on April 25. The reason
why
English translation emerged so early is that Umeda Mochio, the
author,
declared to allow the book to be freely translated into any languages
to be
published anywhere on the Net in the form of web content on his blog
entry
of April 20, 5 days before the release. And an open source style
project of translation of it has been kicked by shotayakushiji since
April 29 and then
15 Japanese people including myself came together to generate the
tentative version linked above.

I'm sure this will instantly be one of most interesting reading
materials in
English about shogi.

You can not only read the contents but also participate in brushing up
the translation since the translation is still tentative and the
project is
proceeding in an Open Source style. In order to take part in the
project,
having a PBworks account will be required. And you can kick the
translation project of it into other languages than English and
French.
(PJ for French translation by Yamada Yoshihisa, see the link both in
Japanese and French below;
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/yoshihisa_yamada/20090509/1241832915 )

Here are some links to the contents related to this project for our
reference.

* Emerging Open Source Translation Projects in Japan
http://www.mobinode.com/2009/05/09/emerging-open-source-translation-p...

* Open-source style translation project "Shogi" book
http://hogacentral.blogs.com/japan_tech_blog/2009/05/opensouce-style-...

Shogi-Silicon Valley Book open to the world
* http://www.yokoishikura.com/english/?p=381

Date: May 28th to 31th, 2009.
Venue: Assembly Hall of Déri Museum, Déri tér 1, Debrecen, Hungary
Time limits: 30 minutes + 60 seconds byo-yomi

For more information, please visit
http://magyarsogi.fw.hu/

It's to be held on April 10 to 12, 2009 in San Francisco. The application deadline is March 27. For more information, please visit the followings;

http://www.nyshogi.com/en/index_en.html
http://groups.google.com/group/shogi-l/browse_thread/thread/7bd3c111c8c001a4/245af1e633ba553f?show_docid=245af1e633ba553f

HIDETCHI continuously released his lessons. Each of them is approximately 10 minute long.

Lessons#1-10
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=587865CAE59EB84A&page=1


Lessons#11-20
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=587865CAE59EB84A&page=2


Lessons#21-30(29&30 will be upcoming soon)
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=587865CAE59EB84A&page=3

Have fun.

They are for complete novices/beginners. So far today, there appeared 18 lessons. It's still ongoing.

Playlist: How to play Shogi(将棋)
Description: Shogi lessons in English. I will teach you how to play Japanese Chess, Shogi.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=587865CAE59EB84A

If you are interested in both shogi and chess, here is a information for you. 3 crown Habu and Meijin Moriuchi are taking part in World Open Chess Tournament held in US. They are in Five-Day section.

You can see the page of Word Open at http://www.worldopen.com/

You can replay some of their games through http://www.worldopen.com/games.htm
(Java-capable browser is required to see the games.)

mahavrilla: Please try the links in the page of my blog at http://shogi.typepad.jp/eweblog/2005/11/basic_shogi_inf_1.html

I think shogi FESA and USSF organizations use the rating system which is equivalent to western chess. Please refer to http://www.shogi.net/fesa/rating.intro

A professional players' association exists in Japan. They don't use rating system. They use Dan grading system.

DragonKing: As you may possibly know, Tanigawa 9dan won it with 107 moves. You can replay it in the following unofficial page temporarily.
http://3rd.geocities.jp/shogi_kifu/64-3.html (Sente is Tanigawa 9dan)

ニコ: There have been arguements whether Gyokusho(玉将) or (王将) is correct at least since 17th century.

In diagrams in the books and magazines published by Nihon Shogi Renmei(Japan Shogi Association), 'Gyoku'(玉) is used for both colors.

On the other hand, if you buy a set of shogi pieces, there usually are one Gyokusho and one Ohsho as the Kings in it. It is a practice that a higher rated player uses the Ohsho and a lower rated player uses the Gyokusho in that case.

I think it will be no problem for Brainking to use two Gyokusho for both Kings.

In Japan, we don't use the technical terms like Sente and Gote in a handicap game. Instead, we use Uwate(more skillful player) for a handicap giver and Shitate(less skillful player) for a handicap taker. And, Uwate, a handicap giver, always moves first in handicap games.

The color of Uwate is White and that of Shitate is Black. Why? I think this is due to the conveneience of printing industry in Japan. Looking at shogi books in Japan, the lower side of a diagram of a handicap shogi position is always Shitate(black). The player who needs to read such book is definitely novices/begenners and it is easier to understand the position if the lower side of the diagram is Shitate(Black) rather than Uwate(White). I think this is true for Igo handicap games. White(a handicap giver) drops first there.

Together with Igo release in Brainking(http://brainking.com/en/News), the colors of players has switched each other in Shogi, i.e. Black for Sente(the first mover) and White for Gote(the second mover). They used to be reversed here.

I would like to say thank you to Fencer for doing a good job as always. And I hope the handicapped game feature will be added to shogi shortly.

YuryShpilev: Thanks for input. It seems like that I have to admit the problem is common to the people outside Japan. If possible, can you email me the screenshot of the moves in left side board? I will inform asahi.com of the problem. It will be helpful to explain the problem to them better.

It requirs for Flash Player to be installed onto your PC before viewing the board. I don't think Flash Player has a Japanese specific version. Just now I uninstalled my Flash Player from my PC and installed it through the following page; http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&P5_Language=English
Then the page showed up without fail again. My PC uses XP and IE6.

Fujii 9 dan challenges Asahi Habu in the 3 wins match. The 1st game started.
As a result of Furigoma, Habu made a first move(lower side of the board
diagram). Each player has 3 hours as thinking time. You can watch and replay
the game at
http://www.asahi.com/shougi/kifu24/s060404.html

Have fun.

If you are interested, please refer to šógi at
http://www.hrejsi.cz/sogi/index.htm

If you are interested in US shogi championship to be held in Washington DC on April 1-2, please refer to the following announcements.
http://lists.topica.com/lists/shogi/read/message.html?mid=811886420&sort=d&start=1305
http://lists.topica.com/lists/shogi/read/message.html?mid=811894601&sort=d&start=1330
http://lists.topica.com/lists/shogi/read/message.html?mid=811959456&sort=d&start=1355

The following sites are good shogi sites in French. I appreciate your input about leaks in my list.
http://shogifrance.fr-bb.com/index.forum (Forum Shôgi France)
http://shogi.alsace.free.fr/ (Association Shogi d'Alsace)
http://forumjapon.free.fr/shogi.paris/ (Shogi Paris)
http://eric.macshogi.com/ (Eric's shogi page)
http://mapage.noos.fr/shogi/ (Florian's shogi page)
http://www.shogi.fr/ (Shogi France)

Nico: Hello. Here is my answer.
http://www.thaibg.com/SGOnline/ (in Thai)
http://game.www.infoseek.co.jp/ (in Japanese)
http://www.hangame.co.jp/ ( - ditto - )
http://game.livedoor.com/ ( - ditto - )
http://internet3.shogidojo.net/kinsho/dojo.htm (in Japanese, licensed by SC24)
http://taisen.mycom.co.jp/taisen/ (in Japanse, pay service)
http://www.nsn.co.jp/(in Japanse, pay service)

And I heard Yahoo HK has it on service.

DragonKing: Thanks for your response. I'm not at home with chushogi. So please contact the people in GCSA.

bengood24: Hello. Nice to hear you started learning shogi.
How about the section of 'Some Opening strategy' in Basic Rules of Shogi or Japanese chess by Sam Sloan at http://www.shamema.com/shogi.htm ? although I do not upload the site to my blog since the page is with music! So don't see it in your workplace which might surprise your colleague if any.

Black Forest Shogi Workshop will be held on Oct. 6(Fri.) through 8(Sun.) in Germany. Beginners will be welcomed. I think there are many European(especially Czech) players here. It will be a good opportunity to learn shogi more and meet friends through shogi. For more information, please look at
Annoucement in English:http://shogi.alsace.free.fr/files/invitat
ion_engPDF.pdf
Announcement in German:http://shogi.alsace.free.fr/files/einladun
g_deutPDF.pdf

the German Chu Shogi Association (GCSA), founded in this January, renewed its website recently. If you are interested in Chu shogi, pleased refer to
http://www.chushogi.de/ (The contents are mainly written in English.)

May 20-21, the Austrian Shogi Open 2006 will be held in Graz, Austria. There will be 5 rounds swiss system tournament. If you are interested, please refer to the followings;

http://www.shogi.at/7ShogiMeisterschaft.html (Announcement in German)

http://forum.shogishop.de/viewtopic.php?t=106&sid=4403ee602b... (Announcement in English)

DragonKing: Moriuchi did. He took Kio title from Habu.

You can watch and replay the game at
http://www.hokkoku.co.jp/syougi/

Nasmichael: There have been lot of title match games between Habu and Moriuchi which are available to replay on the Net with comments. Please refer to Reijer's page at http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SHOGI/kifumain.html if you are interested.

DragonKing: Thanks for referring to my blog. It can be found at
http://shogi.typepad.jp/eweblog/

Or you can go there through my profile page in Brainking.com

DragonKing: You can watch and replay the second game at
http://kiou.niigata-nippo.co.jp/kif31/index.html

Moriuchi made a first move.

You can find the official notice at http://esc2006.free.fr/en/
It will be held at Colmar in France between July 06 and 09.

For those who are interested in the results of ESC in the past, please visit
the FESA pages through http://www.shogi.net/fesa/

YuryShpilev: Sorry for late reply since I wrongly felt I already answered. Yes. after Jishogi, re-game with exchanging colours will occur.

DragonKing:
I believe they switch colours and replay immediately. They should use the rest of their time at the point when Sennichite occurred.

YuryShpilev:
Although I cannot check out the rules in all the ama tournaments in Japan because of so many tournaments, it is said that 27 point rule is popular in many ama tournaments.

I believe the rules except for 24 point rule have been created in order to solve the problem that no time exist for re-match after Jishgi in ama tournaments.(In Japan, the number of participants in the major amature tournaments are often much larger and the preliminary tournament term is usually one day, not using 2 days of full weekends, which is different from most Western countries).

ughaibu:
In some amateur tournaments, 27 points rule is applied. If both sides have 27 points, then White(Gote) will win in that rule.

In addition, Senzaki 8 dan wrote a proposal that the player who moves his King to the opponent's original position(means 5a or 5i) first should win the game when both Kings entered into the promtional zones. This rule is applied in the Iruma Shogi Center in Saitama prefecture.

ughaibu: Slight correction, to get 5 dan, it requires to be the second best player in a national ama tournament hosted by Japan Shogi Assosiation. To get 6 dan, it requires to win a national ama tournamnet hosted by JSA. And winning a JSA hosted tournament three times will be entitled 7 dan.

DragonKing: Tatsushi Higuchi, a Japanese shogi fan, carculates and published the rating of pro players on his website.
http://members3.jcom.home.ne.jp/ta-higu/shogi/pro-rating.html
According to him, Top 5 players as of September 30, 2005 are as followings;
Habu 3176
Maruyama 3081
Sato 3080
Watanabe 3067
Moriuchi 3066
His rating list will be updated quarterly.

takodori: Aoocrding to kurnik.blog at http://www.kurnik.org/blog/, shogi has been added as a new game there.

I wrote information how to choose symbolic or kanji pieces there at my blog at http://shogi.typepad.jp/eweblog/ for your reference.

DragonKing: Sorry. One correction. I think YuryShpilev's b) is wrong.
It shoud no be so easy. After N-5c+, Gx4c +Nx4c R*8b P*3b Rx3b G*5a Kx5a +Nx3b S*1b Rx2b+ Bx2b S*6c B*5b R*8a B-6a Rx8b+ N*7b +Rx7c then White could not recover the hopeless situation.

DragonKing: Watanabe won it with 71 moves. The variation after the final move is as YuryShpilev points out. N-5c+ would be a magical sacrifice.
I've dealt with it in my blog at http://shogi-excitinggame.blogspot.com/

You can watch and replay the game at
http://www.iijnet.or.jp/shogi/kifu/index.html
Title holder Ryuou Watanabe made a first move. For those who can read Japanese,
Ryuou-sen Blog is available at
http://www.shogi-live.com/blog02/

YuryShpilev: Well. Though it is time-consuming, there is a way like this.

Click "Raintings" on the main page and then click "Japanese Chess" to go to
the Rating players list. And then click "show all started games" on that page.
Then you can see 9 page of the list of started games with players' nicknames.
Compare them with the provisional BKR players. The difference should be the
unrated players that you would like to know.

The number of Japanese chess players who obtained provisional BKR exceeds 100 today, as you see in http://brainking.com/en/Ratings?ap=1