Two players face each other across a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks (rows, 段) by 9 files (columns, 筋) yielding an 81-square … See more

Objective
The usual goal of a game is for one player to checkmate the other player's king, winning the game.
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There are two common systems used to notate piece movements in shogi game records. One is used in Japanese language texts while a second was created for western … See more

Shogi players are expected to follow etiquette in addition to rules explicitly described. Commonly accepted etiquette include the following:
• Greetings … See more

Each player sets up friendly pieces facing forward (toward the opponent).
• In the rank nearest the player:
That is, the first rank is See more

Amateur players are ranked from 15 kyū to 1 kyū and then from 1 dan to 8 dan. Amateur 8 dan was previously only honorarily given to … See more

Shogi is similar to chess but has a much larger game tree complexity because of the use of drops, greater number of pieces, and larger … See more