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| About this site This site is about getting better on Shogi play. I see so many people, who started playing in Kurnik (Now PlayOK), just start playing without any knowledge of various openings or basic techniques for game closings.  Knowledge of Chess helps, bud due to unique nature of Shogi, there are basic techniques that you should know. This will dramatically improve your chance of playing better games. So look around and learn how to play this fantastic board game in more enjoyable way. History of this site (See blog for new additions beyond 2010) Study room contents are added about once a month, although I will not make any specific announcement. A page referencing to English Shogi Books was added August 12 09 Fixed error in reference to BCM shogi and added more contents in Study room Jun 26 09 Study room is now open for public, although the room is mostly empty June 5,09 Kifu for Flash engine used in this site has been updated to version1.10. Consequently, the kifu notations are now displayed in English mode if environment setting is non-Japanese although remarks in commend window are still Japanese. Oct 28,08 Now there are video lessons available on Youtube. Link is provided here Oct 27,08 - Replaced Java boards with Flash boards. Now the site is (almost) Java free May 22, 08
- Page 1st move R5g! added April 28,08
- Page Hisshi resources added Mar 13,08
Lables on Control buttons of "Kifu for Java" applet on this site are now in English. Special thanks to Mr.Yoshikazu Kakinoki, the author of the Java applet for quickly sending me this special edition code. Dec 23,07 - Ai furi System demo play added Nov 20,2007
- Introduction to Kifu Notation added Nov 16, 2007
- Yagura 37 gin board added Nov 11, 2007
August 30,2007:Framework Complete July 7,2007: Start constructing the site July 2,2007 : Inpeccable timing. I recieved a free domain offer and site space from Officelive.com July 1, 2007 : Sudden urge to create Shogi-site Feb 2007: Found Kurnik.org and start playing shogi on line
To Do (and wish) list
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| Add a page - How to asess your strength
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Discuss the online assessment program (Mainichi.JP dan-i program) . How to navigate the site etc.,
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| Add a page - How to assess game situation
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Add game assessment explanations to "Value of pieces"
Evaluating the effectiveness of each pieces and advantage of whose turn it is. How and when to make an assessment and what to do with it.
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| Add a page Eishun Style Universal Opening
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1. Prepare Kifu : Done
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3. Write intro.
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| Add tesuji () excercise board
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1) investigate flash kifu player avaialble.
2) Experiment with javascript for "paging" of flash files on the same page.
3) prepare examples.
4) create a page
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| Study room - Strategy *against* center file rook - Iijima style slung Bishop
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| Study room - Strategy *against* center file rook - S-3g
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Have to find a demonstratable kifu!
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| Study room - Strategy *against* center file rook - S-4g
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Have to find a demonstratable Kifu!
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| About Us
I was born in Japan and raised in Japan. Shogi Bug bit me when I was a teenager. I played a lot when I was in high-school. Then I moved to the United Sates. Since then I did not play shogi for the longest time. Recently, I found Kurnik.net and started to play again. In the meantime, I learned that there are many Shogi sites (Mainly in Japanese, but some in English and other languages too.) In Kurnik, my rating is hovering around 1700, so I don't pretend to be a very strong player, but for most of you, I can show you how you can eventually beat me ^_^
My son does most of the maintenance of this site (he's still 13 years old). He was born and raised in America, so he knows a lot more english than me. He doesn't play Shogi, but instead, he likes to play video games. He once played as Turbo13z. You can search for him, but I guarantee that he won't be on. He likes to play MapleStory more these days. If you do too, his IGN is wurtware.
| | About Shogi  Shogi is a Japanese variant of Chess. Both games originated from India. Shogi uses Flat wood pieces instead of more 3D look pieces of Western Chess. One interesting theory about why Western Chess acquired statue like shape, compared to other variant of chess (Chiniese, Korean etc.,) is that when Chess travelled through middle east on the back of Camels, those people used the animals dropping to play on the sand. Arithmetically speaking, it is said that possible moves in a given board situation is about 80. Assuming 115 moves as an average of one game, possible combination of moves for Shogi play is about 10^220. For chess, the number is about 10^120. But the gold crown goes to Go. The possible combinations is said to be 10^360.
See Wikipedia for more information on Shogi
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