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  2. Sennichite - Wikipedia

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    This is a significant difference from western chess, in which a player can play specifically to obtain draws for gaining half points. In the case of sennichite, professional shogi players will have to immediately play a subsequent game (or as many games as necessary) with sides reversed in order to obtain a true win outcome. (That is, the ...

  3. Shogi strategy - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Fortress castle - Wikipedia

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    Fortress or Yagura (矢倉囲い or 櫓囲い yaguragakoi) is a castle used in shogi. It is considered by many to be the strongest defensive position in shogi in Double Static Rook games. [1] A yagura. The most common form of Fortress is the Gold Fortress. Besides the Gold Fortress, there are many variant forms.

  5. Shogi tactics - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Climbing Silver - Wikipedia

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    Climbing Silver (棒銀 bōgin, literally "pole-silver") is a shogi strategy.. Climbing Silver involves advancing a silver upward along with an advanced or dropped pawn supported by the rook aiming to break through the opponent's camp on their bishop's side.

  7. Fortress opening - Wikipedia

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    How to play Shogi (将棋): Lesson 14: Opening Principles · Contains some discussion of Fortress opening (from 2 min 28 sec) Rapid Encountered Yagura, Primitive Climbing Silver Shogifan 将棋ファン: Yagura -1 矢倉

  8. Snowroof - Wikipedia

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    In shogi, Snowroof or Snow Roof Fortress (雁木 gangi, lit. 'goose-wooden') is a Static Rook opening that characteristically uses a Snowroof castle. It is named after the covered sidewalks (雁木造) connected to buildings in Niigata Prefecture .

  9. Tomoka Nishiyama - Wikipedia

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    Nishiyama's victory also made her the second apprentice professional after Katō to win a women's professional shogi major title. [2] [16] Nishiyama successfully defended her Jo-Ō title the following year when she defeated women's professional shogi player Kana Satomi 3 games to 1 in May 2019. [17]