How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#24- Shogi World (Woman Professional and Amateur Players)

[Reyrocksall]

Is Tokyo U as hard as they say?

[gokharol]

Youre incredible !!did you know? I think youre the best, hey can i join the amateur, even if i am a non japanese person?

[konsyjes]

Thank you for all your hard work with the videos so far. I like your style!

I think it would be interesting to learn about some middle game strategies and how to attack and defend correctly. For western players used to chess it is not an easy step to adjust to using captured pieces so strategies that involve many exchanges are also something I would like to learn more about. Also, what is important to win the game and how to use your advantage after you have it. Thank you! I will be watching.

[iLuvHinata360]

Kana Satomi is only 16 years old o.O, that's my age! she must have started shogi years earlier. Cool ranking system ^^. I wonder if I am good enough to be in amateur 10th-9th dan :P.

[hirohiigo]

@iLuvHinata360 This video was made in December 2008, so she's older now. She'll be 18 in a few days.

[iLuvHinata360]

m, true but, she was there with only 16, that was my point :P. not the age she has now-a-days XP. I should have said: "she WAS 16 years old". early age for a woman professional. I remember you from playOK, you're Hidan888's friend, i'm rikkuhyuuga, remeber?

[Reyrocksall]

Modest are we?

[simonguoxm]

I must say --Your English is very good.

[davil3n]

I'm very impressed with the knowledge you possess on Shogi being a 5th Dan your insight is very valuable. I'm thankful that you have taken the time to teach me to play a game I have been wanting to learn for years. arigato gozaimasu Hidetchi san.

[2025AD]

You graduated from Todai?

Somehow I had the impression that you're no common person, despite your genuine modesty.

By the way, thank you for sharing some personal effects, like your 5th dan certificate.

[AoiFurisode]

I been looking over these videos and applying what I learned in how I play but the only way I can play is playing against the computer on "Shotest Shogi" on Xbox 360. However, I find the computer opponents to be extremely good, even for the easiest modes and opponents. I wonder how these cpu controlled ranked if they were real players.

[animefan2396]

HI!=^.^=I love your videos and they've really helped me in playing shogi.

as for what you said, I'ld like to learn "The Climbing Silver" and, in one of your prevous lessons(the castles)you showed a castle called "the Silver Crown", I'ld like to learn how to make that castle step-by-step.plz reply to this

[HIDETCHI]

I believe I showed you the process of building a Silver Crown in that video. That's how we make it.

[senshi010]

UAA!! kimi toudai de sotsugyou!!!

Sugei atama ii  !!!

[HelbaMjo]

Hi, perhaps I'm a bit late but concerning your Series 3 video, it'd be great if you could make one with 4th file rook. I'm particularly interested in the case when the rook is attacking with a High Mino castle, how to defend the zone between the lance and the castle?

I could kinda do that with some kind of tower with (going upward in file 8) knight-silver-pawn-bishop, but it's kinda hard to keep and weak against an enemy bishop (fork with the lowest gold especially, and attacks on the silver)

[shogiwar]

Hey I'm the guy who asked if it was ok to make a DVD from your wonderful "Shogi Lessons". Just wanted to let you know that I made one, with Lessons 1 to 24 on it. It's 3 hours and 40 minutes long! Well done. Keep up the good work!

[shogi4fun]

Idea: diff between king and jeweled general.

I know, in Japan, it's a very BIG (!!!) difference, western people can't understand.

Also at Shogi-List were discussion about it, but they didn't declared it.

"usually" the better player use the king general.

What, if the stronger player starts a game against a weaker player? Or can't this happen?

I believe, Furigoma is made AFTER setup the game. Are the Kings changed after Furigoma (if needed)?

I believe there are much more questions about this!

[HIDETCHI]

It's just that the superior (i.e. stronger, elder, etc.) player uses the King general, no matter who plays first. I mean, King general can be used either by black or white.

By the way, what's "Shogi-List"?

[shogi4fun]

Shogi-L is a shogi discussion list.

Difficulty to send links at youtube:

Here the actual list:

groups[dot]google[dot]com/grou­p/shogi-l

Here the arichve (earlier place):

lists[dot]topica[dot]com/lists­/shogi/read

Probably interestingly for you ;-)

groups[dot]google[dot]com/grou­p/shogi-l/browse_thread/thread­/e92e75f901782576/da0b51d2a20d­3e17

[shogi4fun]

@Calliban

Oh, that's very easy (to get an approximate value).

Simple play many games against japanese.

How you can do it, maybe you ask?

Of course in internet, for example at shogidojo24

@HIDETCHI

Very much thanks for your Shogi-Series and I hope we will see more and more and more.

Maybe soon with better video&audio quality ;-)

And also much thanks for your voice for my Shogiprogram BCMSHogi. Very much thanks.

[HIDETCHI]

Hi, youtube has an option of playing the video with better audio&visual quality. Just add "&fmt=18" to the end of the address for each video.

I'd like to present your Shogiprogram in lesson#27. Would that be all right?

[legalrule]

Hidetchi,

Great video and fantastic info and you did a great job explaining details we in the West would not know!

Thank You

[shogi4fun]

@HIDETCHI

Thanks for the "&fmt=18" hint. I'm not familiar with youtube and also didn't recognized the "watch in high quality" link in your earlier videos before.

Of course you can present my Shogiprogram. This makes me really happy.

Still thinking about it, I assume it could be a funny video: hearing your voice twice, one directly from you and one from my program. ;-)))

[AstralBrandon]

try a video on what to do it a game to remember which is the best move to make not really just forks and etc. but like moves where you can get in a closer hit at the opponent's king later but you have to do it then...if that makes sense

[trick747]

A spontaneous idea:

After teaching us everything we need to know about rules, openings, tactics, etc., maybe at some later lesson (or the very last?) the time has come to swap the roles for a single lesson in which you would not be presenting us any solutions anymore but asking us to answer some questions, solve problems, find the next move, etc. Some sort of Shogi quiz, where the questions you present us, have been discussed in one of your previous lessons.

[HIDETCHI]

Hmmm, that sounds interesting. I think I'll consider that.

[shogiwar]

Once again another excellent video in this series!

I would love to see a lesson on the Ishida Quick attack. I've tried this attack a few times, but it seems whenever I try it, it doesn't work. However, I've had a few people use it against me, and they seem to get it too work (somehow :).

Also anything on some child prodigies like Kato Momoko, would be interesting...

Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

[HIDETCHI]

hmmm, I see lots of viewers want to learn about Ishida Quick Attack. It's a very exciting opening strategy. You have to play very carefully when you play it, because a lot of traps are in that kind of quick attacks.

Oh, you know Kato Momoko? You know about shogi very well, then.

[Novacat1822]

An excellent video! I joined youtube just so i could comment on your video series. I look forward to more videos, and would love to see closer looks at specific and well known shogi tactics, such as the climbing silver... ect. Thanks again for the great video series!

[HIDETCHI]

Hi, I'm really glad that you joined youtube to give me comments. Enjoy my future videos, too.

[Alanynn]

The same goes for me ;]

Climbing Silver will be probably the most demanded strategy since it was mentioned in Naruto.

[Alanynn]

OK, this one was supposed to be a reply to Novacat1822's comment. I don't know why it was put here.

[abulac]

hi

liked your video as always:) and can't wait to watch the next series(I am really happy that you won't stop with the basics).

an idea for a future lesson:

one of your games with comments about what did you think when you played that move and things like that... We could learn a lot of a 5 dan player's game

do you play on playok(kurnik) or shogidojo? if yes what is your username there?

[HIDETCHI]

My games with comments? That's an interesting idea, but I'll make videos of famous professional games with annotations, so that will be much better than my games...

I've never played on playok, but I often play on shogidojo24. My username is the same as on youtube.

[trick747]

another idea:

How to punish impulsive and thoughtless attacks:

A lot of beginners dont like to play shogi the proper way. Instead they try to attack immediately, without noticing their bad shape. Other beginners, then frightened by these attacks and overly cautious, dont realize the countermeasures they have and successively get into a desperate position. This again makes the attacker believe he had chosen the correct strategy, which is a fallacy. Prove them wrong!

[trick747]

Hello Hidetchi, some suggestions:

Opening Traps

I am no opening expert but I know there are quite a few traps especially when bishops are exchanged or when rook pawns are advanced early. Or: How to behave correctly when your opponent starts a quick attack (e.g. by pushing pawn p-3d, p-3e, then rook 3b, I think its called Ishida quick attack, or how to play against the Ishida variant with knight on 3c and bishop on 1c).

Shogi Proverbs:

Maybe you can present and explain some of these proverbs.

[HIDETCHI]

Thanks for you good suggestions. I agree that lots of shogi beginner want to know how to behave against opening traps or quick attacks. I'll make lessons on those.

And, shogi proverbs! That's a good idea. Actually, that came up to my mind before once, but I've been totally forgetting that.

[HIDETCHI]

Thanks for giving me your comments, Ztryn-san.

All right, I'll try to make lessons on a lot of different strategies.

[OverlordBaai]

I've been practicing playing shogi on this website: "w w w . g e n e d a v i s s o f t w a r e . c o m / s h o g i / i n d e x . h t m l" could you maybe play a round or two and tell me how difficult you think it is? It's a bit hard for me... but I'm still learning how to play of course.

[apetresc]

Hey Hidetchi! Thank you so much, I really enjoy these videos and they've certainly helped my shogi, especially the more 'advanced' ones. Which is why I'm very excited about the other series :) I would love to see some annotated 'famous games' as well as strategy for openings like fourth-file rook.

Thanks again!

[HIDETCHI]

Hi, thanks for your comment.

I think I'm gonna try one video for 'Famous Games' in the near future, even before finishing this series of 'How to play Shogi'.

I'll make lessons on 4th-file rook, too.

[Calliban]

Just a question

Is there a way to tell approximate level of skill (in the kyu/dan way) outside of Japan?

Most of our subscribers are from outside Japan, so I find it's quite difficult to measure the player level when it's almost impossible to compete or to join the shogi association in japan.

[HIDETCHI]

I'm afraid I have no idea how you can tell your level outside of Japan. What I can do is only to show you this website.

h t t p://w w w.shogitown.c o m/school/judge/judgetop.html

However, it's written in Japanese. I guess it's not helpful to you... After you solved all 50 problems there and counted the points, it will tell you your level.

[vyli1]

how could i solve those problems? i cant read japanesse, i only noticed, one piece is white and other are yellow, so it does have something with the white piece, but i dont understand, what should i do... Capture the white piece? or what?

[HIDETCHI]

The white piece is just to indicate the opponent's last move. What you should do is answer the best move in each situation. I thought if only you can read Japanese shogi notation, perhaps it might be helpful.