Shogi related links

 
 

On Google or Yahoo , you will be able to find a lot of websites about Shogi.
Here, we have chosen to share the URL which semt quite useful to us.

This list has been largely completed with the help of Sylvain Ferrières and Hirobi Yagamuchi who have well contributed through the Shogi-L.
Thanks to them for these contributions !

  Our Sponsors
  http://www.theschado.com
  Theschado website.
If you like good teas, just go there! Stephane Ride can offer you a huge choice of blends, green teas, etc...
  http://www.bakaneko.fr
  Baka Neko Library
A quite interesting shop offering asian oriented DVDs, books, etc...
  french/japanese connections around Colmar
  http://japondestras.free.fr
  Japon de Stras' or japanese life at Strasbourg.
Interesting site to know the different japan-related activities at Strasbourg, but also at Colmar.
More precisely, it's the place to know the planning of the CEJA (Japanese Study Centre of Alsace).
  Shogi Community
  http://www.shogi.or.jp
  Nihon Shogi Renmei website (Japanese Shogi Federation) unfortunately only in japanese.
There were a few pages in english there once upon a time, but there's no more now.
  http://www.shogi.net
  "The" European Shogi website.
There, you can find a lot of information: ELO rating, next tournaments dates & places, pictures, and a complete explanation about the Shogi Mailing-List (see next link).
  http://www.shogi.net/shogi-l.html
  Information link about the "Shogi-l", mailing-list speaking ONLY about Shogi.
Good to know : all the mail sent to Shogi-l are archived in a Newsgroup, fa.shogi
  http://www.shogiforum.net/
  Forum related to Shogi in english and german.
Maintained by Shogi Deutschland, this forum provide some information about the next tournaments and to take part to some discussion around the thema of Shogi.
  http://www.bujutsu.com/shogi/
  Shogi at Uncle Sam's country : here's the US Federation website.
Cool website if you're searching contacts in USA.
  http://www.homepage.kiev.ua/shogi/
  Ukranian Tovarichs are playing Shogi too. We have problems to understand what is written but the website seems to be interesting. ;-)
  Shogi rules/introduction
  http://homepages.ed.ac.uk/rjhare/shogi/intro.htm
  Page in english precising rules and a lot of other information about Shogi.
  http://mapage.noos.fr/shogi/
  Florian Guzek's page. Florian is a french player who seems to be a talented graphist.
The rules are well explained in french there.
  http://www.chessvariants.com/shogi.html
  If you want to discover the different Shogi variants.
  http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/rules/erules.html
  Another english speaking website where you can find the rules.
  http://www.hollandnumerics.demon.co.uk/SHOGI.HTM
  In english too, this website mastered by Phil Holland is providing not only the rules but also some information about a Shogi "mail" tournament.
  http://boardgames.about.com/library/weekly/aa090399.htm
  Another website explaining the Shogi rules.
A lot of ads and banners... :-(
  Shogi Strategy
  http://www.shogi.net/nexus/ukekata/index.html
  "How to defend in Shogi" by Yasuharu Oyama
English website explaining some good ways to defend in Shogi.
  http://www.shogi.net/kakugen/
  "Shogi proverbs"
Some proverbs in english about Shogi. Perhaps will you find that curious but, actually, these proverbs have already shown their value.
  http://www.shogi.net/noda/quest-all.html
  "Book on Shogi Openings" Part 1 & 2
  Tsume shogi (mating problems)
  http://www.shogi.net/nexus/ladder/help.html
  Some explanations about Tsume Shogi
  http://www005.upp.so-net.ne.jp/tsumepara/contents/3problem/ted/ted.htm
  Try Everyday! A japanese Website providing daily some Tsume.
Answers are published the day after. Although in japanese, the diagramms and answers can be understood.
  http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/emate/mate.html
  Some interesting Tsume.
  http://www.ag.wakwak.com/~k-oohasi/shougi/
  Old classical Tsume... but in japanese...
  http://member.nifty.ne.jp/tanwww/outlines_en.html
  Shogi josekis
  Shogi games
  http://www.macshogi.com/download/index.html
  more than 2000 amateur and pros games published by Eric Cheymol.
  http://www.shogi.net/ladder/mygames.html
  Amateur games
  http://www.teu.ac.jp/gamelab/SHOGI/shogipage.html
  Reijer Grimbergen's Shogi page
Pros games to replay, and with comments!
  http://www.ricoh.co.jp/SHOGI/index_e.html
  Ricoh Shogi home page
Another interesting Shogi page. You can find there some players pictures and commented games.
  Shogi database software
  http://foreninger.uio.no/shogi/shogiopening/
  Shogi openings
  http://www.ibridge.be/shogi/
  GNSB - GNU Shogi Database Project
  Shogi online
  http://www.shogidojo.com/eng/engindex.htm
  "Shogi Club 24"
A real virtual Shogi dojo where you can play in real time against players from whereever in the World. This website can be visited in japanese and in english. A french version will be soon released.
  http://www2.shogi.gr.jp/~ryo/index-e.html
  "JavaShogi"
à tester : http://www.javashogi.jp/~board/
  http://games.yahoo.com/games/login2?page=shg
  Shogi is on Yahoo! too
Not very well known but quite interesting.
  http://games.yahoo.co.jp/
  The same but in japanese ;-)
  Shogi playing software
  http://www.geocities.jp/bonanza_shogi/
  A new Shogi software, "Bonanza", which seems to be quite strong.
He has already an ELO of 2400 on Shogi Dojo!
  http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/pmturune/Shocky_e.html
  Shocky
  http://www.m-net.ne.jp/~sekita/english.html
  Sekita Shogi
  http://www.nexus.carleton.ca/~ttidman/WinShogi/index.html
  WinShogi
  http://members.ozemail.com.au/~alpearce/sho.html
  ShogiGold
  http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~mvanier/hacking/gnushogi/gnushogi.html
  GNUshogi pour Unix
  http://www.netspace.net.au/~trout/index.html
  Variantes du Shogi
  http://www.zillionsofgames.com/games/index.html
  A lot of games in their different forms.
Enter "Shogi" in the search field and see what is coming...
  Diverses
  http://eric.macshogi.com/
  Eric Cheymol's shogi page
Eric is a very good player from Paris.
Quite useful when you want to evaluate your ELO rate.
Since a few monthes, the official ELO rating is now at Shogi Net
  http://forumjapon.free.fr/shogi.paris/
  Florent Gorges' Blog
Florent is Forum Japon's admin and has recently discovered Shogi.
His Blog is really interesting and gives a way to discover other aspects of Shogi world.
  http://shogi.typepad.jp/eweblog/
  Takodori's blog
Takodori, aka Manabu Terao, is deeply involved in Shogi development outside Japan.
He's indeed working for the ISPS and brings here an interesting blog about Shogi.
  http://www.shogi.net/shogivocab/
  Shogi vocabulary
  http://www.ff.iij4u.or.jp/~jun1/shogi_link_e.html
  Shogi Links
  http://www.halcyon.com/stouten/shogi.html
  Pieter Stouten's Home Page.
A very interesting website about Shogi. The first one I found actually. This site includes a very good list of links and some news about tournament, etc...
  http://gobase.org/reading/history/edo/
  History of Go and Shogi
An interesting article about history of Go and Shogi.