enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Shogi tactics - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi_tactics

    In shogi, only lances, rooks (or dragons), and bishops (or horses) can pin an opponent's piece. In the adjacent example, the Black's pawn at 37 is pinned by White's bishop because if the pawn were to advance to 36 then Black's rook would be captured by the bishop.

  3. Shogi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi

    Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ i /, [1] Japanese:), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi.

  4. Shogi notation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi_notation

    Shogi notation is the set of various abbreviatory notational systems used to describe the piece movements of a shogi game record or the positions of pieces on a shogi board. A game record is called a 棋譜 kifu in Japanese.

  5. Crab Silvers - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Silvers

    The Crab Silvers (カニカニ銀 kani kani gin) is a shogi opening. It is a type of Rapid Attack Fortress opening, used mostly when playing Black (sente). It is often classified as a trap opening. It was created by professional shogi player Kōichi Kodama, [1] for which he received the prestigious Kōzō Masuda Award in 2003.

  6. Shogi strategy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi_strategy

    Shogi, like western chess, can be divided into the opening, middle game and endgame, each requiring a different strategy.The opening consists of arranging one's defenses and positioning for attack, the middle game consists of attempting to break through the opposing defenses while maintaining one's own, and the endgame starts when one side's defenses have been compromised.

  7. Left Silver-57 Rapid Attack - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Silver-57_Rapid_Attack

    There is a shogi aphorism (将棋の格言 shōgi no kakugen) relevant to Static Rook vs Ranging Rook strategies such as Left Silver-57 Rapid Attack: 序盤は奇数の歩を突け joban wa kisuu no fu o tsuke "In the opening, push the odd-numbered pawns." This refers especially to the seventh, fifth, and third files pawns, which must be ...

  8. Tori shogi - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tori_shogi

    Pieces move either orthogonally (that is, forward, backward, left, or right, in the direction of one of the arms of a plus sign, +), or diagonally (in the direction of one of the arms of a multiplication sign, ×). Many pieces are capable of several kinds of movement, with the type of movement most often depending on the direction in which they ...

  9. 10-Piece handicap - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10-Piece_handicap

    The 10-Piece (十枚落ち jūmai-ochi) handicap in shogi has all of White's pieces removed except for the king and their line of pawns. (Thus, their rook, bishop, golds, silvers, knights, and lances are all missing.) This handicap is very severe and, thus, not competitive. It is not deemed an official handicap of the Japan Shogi Association ...