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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 record of an abstract strategy board game such as shogi is called kifu ( 棋譜 ) in Japanese.
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.
Dancing Pawns (ダンスの歩 dansu no fu) is a pawn drop and pawn sacrifice tactic that exploits the limited piece movement of the gold. [5] The name comes from the way that the pawns cause the gold (or golds) to move around as if they were dancing in their futile attempt to escape capture.
In shogi, castles (Japanese: 囲い, Hepburn: kakoi, lit.: "enclosure") are strong defensive configurations of pieces that protect the king (Japanese: 玉).. While the English shogi term "castle" seems to be borrowed from the special castling move in western chess, shogi castles are structures that require making multiple individual moves with more than one piece.
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.
A shogi opening (戦法 senpō) is the sequence of initial moves of a shogi game before the middle game. The more general Japanese term for the beginning of the game is joban ( 序盤 ) . A jōseki ( 定跡 ) is the especially recommended sequence of moves for a given opening that was considered balanced play at one point in time for both sides ...
Movement and capture are identical to standard shogi, except for check and checkmate. ... Yonin game notation is the same as that of shogi, except that there are four ...
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 ...