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Kifu for Flash

Kifu for flash is a flash player applet that allows you to play kifu-fomat recorded shogi moves. TIt can be also used to show Tsume shogi. There are many great shogi plays that are recorded in kifu-format.

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Basic navigation is the same as Kifu for Java.
Pay particular attention to two buttons at the left side, below where the kifu record is shown.
The first button is a movement selector. It usually shows "No branch."   Now click the move #5 on the record window and notice the indicator now shows "P-4d."  If you click on the small black triangle for a dropdown list , one more move is shown.  This is a movement selector. Anytime there are alternate moves for next move, this indicator shows possible moves and you can select a move.
"Save" will download the particular kifu record onto your computer. This kifu can be played later with program such as BCM shogi, Kifu for Windows, or most of commercially available shogi programs.

Although it might be obvious, meaning of the Navigation buttons on tops are as follows,
 
 ButtonMeaningButtonMeaning
|< Jumps to the Start  >|Jumps to the end 
<<Play Automatically backwards>> Play Automatically
 < Steps back one move  >  Steps forward one move 
 +< Back to the previous branch point >+ Forward to the next branch point
Stop the Play

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(Flip)

Rotate the board 180 degree