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Shogi ( shōgi), or Japanese chess, is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan.

Rules of the game


Objective

Technically the game is won when a king is captured, though in practice defeat is conceded at checkmate or when checkmate becomes inevitable.

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Pieter Stouten's Shogi Home Page - Home of the SHOGI-L mailing list, and many Shogi links.
Meta Description: [ The centre of Shogi (Japanese Chess) on the web, comprising the official sites of the European and Italian Shogi organizations, a Shogi variants page, two email ladders, a games archive, a web mirror of the Shogi Discussion List, and a vast array of Shogi-related links. ]

404 Hans Bodlaender's Shogi Page - Contains history, links, rules, and reviews.

Hans Geuns' Basic Shogi vocabulary - Contains English translations of many Japanese shogi terms. An invaluable tool when reading Japanese publications on shogi.

Ningen Shogi - Every spring, they have the festival Human Japanese chess game in Tendo. Many samurai perform as pieces of Japanese chess game.
Meta Description: [ Ningen Shogi is a hunam Japanese chess game. They held every April on the top of Mt.Maizuru, famous as a beautiful placea of cherry blossoms in Tendo. You see many Japanese samurai in the Middle Ages. ]

Ricoh Shogi's page - Contains invaluable help for the shogi student: Tsume shogi exercises by the renowned Tanigawa and annotated game scores (kifu) from championships.

Shogessi - An original Shogi/Chess variant for 2 or 4 players. Description of the play. Designed to be used with the Cyberboard PbEM freeware.

404 Shogi - Has information on how to play, relevant books, some Tsume, variants, software, and links.

Shogi - The Next Generation - Rules for a variant of Shogi playable in three dimensions instead of just two.
Meta Description: [ hardware dimensionalized game of Shogi for 2 players on 2 levels in English or Japanese ]

Shogi: Japan's Game of Strategy - Extracts and diagrams from the book of the same title, by Trevor Leggett.

Shogi: Japanese Chess (the Chess Variant Pages) - Rules and other information for Shogi, Japanese Chess
Meta Description: [ Rules and other information for Shogi, Japanese Chess ]

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