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How to play Shogi(将棋)
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#1- Introduction
by HIDETCHI 155,678 views
1st video of my lesson series. I explain the initial set-up and the names of the pieces.
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If you want to try a SHOGI game online, go play at 81Dojo.com !!
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#2- How the pieces move
by HIDETCHI 50,060 views
I will explain how the pieces can move. Gold General and Silver General have unique moves. So please be sure you remember them.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#3- Promotion
by HIDETCHI 37,795 views
I'll be talking about promotion and how the promoted pieces can move.
#Next Lesson:
Now I'm preparing a new set of pieces that are easier to recognize in the video than the ones I've been using so far. So please wait for a few days til I make the next video.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#4- Special Lesson
by HIDETCHI 38,761 views
I will show you how to treat a piece when you move it or flip over (promote) it. You can make it look cool if you learn this skill. And also, I'll show you a website that explains about Shogi in English.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#5- Chinese characters on the pieces
by HIDETCHI 33,155 views
I will explain all the chinese characters used in my new set of pieces. And also, I'll be talking about the origins of those characters!
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#6- Capture and Drop
by HIDETCHI 25,443 views
I'll show you how to capture and drop a piece.
After I made this video, I noticed I've committed "two pawns in a file" (which is against the rules) in the example setup...
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#7- Check and Checkmate
by HIDETCHI 22,176 views
I'll be talking about Check and Chekmate. I'll give you exercise problems on how to checkmate your opponent's king.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#8- Game notation
by HIDETCHI 20,676 views
I'll be talking about the terms of Shogi board and game notation. I don't know well about notation in English, so I'll just make a simple explanation.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#9- Illegal Pawn drop
by HIDETCHI 18,525 views
I'll be talking about illegal pawn drops, Which are "mate with a dropped pawn" and "two pawns in a file".
I'll also show you a brilliant mate problem, in which a rook chooses to unpromote so as to avoid "mate with a dropped pawn".
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#10- Piece exchange and Values of pieces
by HIDETCHI 17,428 views
I'll teach you the values of the pieces. 2 Professional players, Tanigawa and Satoh, propose different valuation systems.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#11- Fork
by HIDETCHI 16,800 views
From this lesson, I will teach you five basic Shogi tactics, which are "Fork", "Skewer", "Discovery", "Pin", and "Defender removal".
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#12- Skewer and Discovery
by HIDETCHI 13,735 views
Let's keep on learning basic Shogi tactics. In this lesson I'll teach you "Skewer" and "Discovery".
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#13- Pin and Defender removal
by HIDETCHI 11,808 views
I'll teach you the rest of basic Shogi tactics.By the way, I'm sorry for keeping making small mistakes in my example setups...
Later lessons:
#14 - Opening principles
#15 - Perpetual moves
#16 - Impasse
#17 - Castling
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#14- Opening principles
by HIDETCHI 17,035 views
I'll teach you some of the basic principles of opening by using an example of "Yagura" opening.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#15- Repetition("Sen-nichi-te")
by HIDETCHI 13,363 views
I'll talk about Repetition, and tell you an interesting story concerning the rule of repetition.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#16- Impasse
by HIDETCHI 14,109 views
I'll talk about "King entering", "Impasse", and "Try rule".
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#17- Castles for Double Static Rook Opening
by HIDETCHI 22,365 views
In lesson#17 through #20, I'll teach you many castles in Shogi. It is important that you learn the strong points and the weak points of each castle, and what kind of strategy they should be used in. In this video, I'll show you castles for Double Static Rook strategy.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#18- Castles for Swinging Rook against Static Rook
by HIDETCHI 22,139 views
In this lesson, I'll show you castles for Swinging Rook, especially when you're playing against Static Rook.
# I call Swinging Rook as "Ranging Rook" in this video, because that is the most common name used by English speakers. However, I change the title to "Swinging Rook" due to my personal preference.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#19- Castles for Static Rook against Swinging Rook
by HIDETCHI 15,194 views
In this lesson, I'll show you castles for Static Rook, especially when you play against Swinging Rook. I couldn't make it shorter than 11 minuites, so I applied time compression to the video. It might be a little too fast, sorry.
# I call Swinging Rook as "Ranging Rook" in this video, because that is the most common name used by English speakers. However, I change the title to "Swinging Rook" due to my personal preference.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#20- Castles for Double Swinging Rook
by HIDETCHI 11,022 views
In this lesson, I'll show you castles for Double Swinging Rook.
# I call Swinging Rook as "Ranging Rook" in this video, because that is the most common name used by English speakers. However, I change the title to "Swinging Rook" due to my personal preference.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#21- Traditional way of starting a game
by HIDETCHI 10,187 views
In this lesson, I'll be talking about how to start a game in a traditionally proper way.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#22- Traditional way of ending a game
by HIDETCHI 8,851 views
In this lesson, I'll be talking about how to end a game in a traditionally proper way.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#23- Shogi World (Professional Players)
by HIDETCHI 10,290 views
In this video, I'll talk about how the shogi world is like in Japan. (Ranking system and so on) Sorry the letters are too small. Please use the 'high resolution' mode when you watch it.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#24- Shogi World (Woman Professional and Amateur Players)
by HIDETCHI 8,435 views
In this lesson, I'll continue to explain about shogi world. I'll also show you my 'Dan certificate' and the wordings on it.
Future lessons of this video series will be:
#25-#26: Handicapped games
#27: Free shogi softwares
#28: Internet playing websites
#29: Good websites about shogi in English
#30: Mate problems
#31: Endgame principles
#32-: (more and more topics will continue)
And also I'm planing other new series of:
Series 2. Advanced tactics excersize
Series 3. Strategy Lessons
Series 4. Famous Games
I want your comments on what are your requests for 'series 3' in particular. Please let me know what strategies you wanna learn. (You wanna learn "climbing silver"?, "4th-file rook"?, "double wing attack"?, "side pawn"?, etc. etc.) -
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#25- Handicapped Games (1/2)
by HIDETCHI 8,750 views
I'll be talking about handicapped games. It's very good way for beginners to learn shogi by playing handicapped games.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#26- Handicapped Games (2/2)
by HIDETCHI 6,546 views
I'll show you the rest of handicapped games. We'll look into especially 2-piece handicap in detail.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#27- Free Shogi Softwares
by HIDETCHI 13,738 views
In this lesson, I'll present many shogi freewares you can find on the net.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#28- Online Playing Websites
by HIDETCHI 9,691 views
Today I'll be talking about the websites where you can play Shogi online. I'll show you 'Play-OK' and 'Shogi-Club-24'. I rather recommend 'Shogi-Club-24' for those who have good challengin spirit, because it's played by more and stronger playes than 'Play-OK' does.
[Edition 27th Aug, 2010] We now have better online playing server than Club24 or PlayOK. It's "81-Dojo". Please come!
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#29- Good English Websites about Shogi
by HIDETCHI 7,520 views
In this video, I'll introduce many good shogi websites in English. My highest recommendations are Takodori-san's and Yamajunn-san's blogs. And there are also lots of other good websites such as Shogi.net, etc. Now let's go surf the shogi world in the web!
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#30- Checkmate Problems
by HIDETCHI 9,149 views
In this video, I'll be talking about checkmate problems. A checkmate problem can be made for shogi training, and also can be made as a work of art. You'll see three mate problems which I made myself. The last one, mate in 27, is pretty interesting, so why don't you solve it yourself? I'll also show you some of the most artistic mate problems that are made in the 18th century of Japan which we call Edo era. And you will see the longest-moves mate problem on earth in the last of my video. Don't miss it!
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#31- Threatmate and Brinkmate
by HIDETCHI 7,791 views
I'll be talking about threatmate and brinkmate. It's very important that you keep threatmates in mind when you play shogi. You should always remind yourself of this shogi proverb "To check is to chase".
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#32- Speed Calculation and "Z"
by HIDETCHI 6,388 views
I'll be talking about an important endgame principle, speed calculation, and teaching you the concept of "initiative move".
I'll also be talking about the most important endgame proverb, "Gain speed rather than meterial". And you'll see what a "Z" means in Shogi. -
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#33- Endgame Speed Tactics
by HIDETCHI 5,718 views
In this lesson, I'll show you various tactics to delay opponent's attack and win the speed race in the endgame, one of which is a tactic called "threatmate-removing threatmate".
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#34- Situation Evaluation
by HIDETCHI 5,229 views
I'll be talking about how to evaluate a situation in a Shogi game. We evaluate situations by the following four items.
1. Material balance
2. Piece efficiency
3. Castle stiffness
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#35- Non-tactical Games Played with Shogi Instruments
by HIDETCHI 6,827 views
I'll present some non-tactical games that are played with Shogi board and pieces. They are:
1. Collapsing Shogi
2. Rounding Shogi
3. Stacking Shogi
4. Shogi Falldown
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#36- Other Tactical Games Played with Shogi Instruments
by HIDETCHI 10,302 views
I'll show you some other tactical games played with Shogi board and pieces, and also several funny rule variants of Shogi. They are:
1. Pincer Shogi ("Hasami-Shogi")
2. 4-player Shogi
3. An-nan Shogi
4. Concealed Shogi
5. Disguised Shogi
6. Cylinder Shogi
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#37- Shogi Variants
by HIDETCHI 7,776 views
I'll present many shogi variants, especially "medium shogi" in detail. You'll see many unique piece that have awesome and powerful moves.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#38- Shogi Board as Arts and Crafts
by HIDETCHI 7,501 views
I'll explain how Shogi boards are classified into different levels of value. They're classified according to the kind of tree it's made of, or how beautiful the grain is, etc. I'll also show you an incredible skill called "Tachi-mori", or sword graduation, in which the craftsman draws lines by a Japanese sword.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#39- Shogi Pieces as Arts and Crafts
by HIDETCHI 7,471 views
I'll be talking about many kinds of shogi pieces from the aspects of how the characters are inscribed, what kind of tree they're made of, and so on.
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How to play Shogi(将棋) -Lesson#40- Final Advice "How to Become a Strong Player"
by HIDETCHI 7,878 views
This is my last video in this series. I'll give you my final advice of how to become a good shogi player.
1. Learn Jousekis
2. Solve mate problems
3. Replay or watch professional games
4. Play games against a bit stronger players
5. Never fail to have post-game discussion
6. Never make a do-over
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Shogi Topics: The history of Shogi title holders
by HIDETCHI 3,627 views
We'll take a quick view over the history of shogi masters ranging from the 17th century to the 21st century. We're gonna see many famous names of shogi player such as Oyama, Habu, etc.
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Shogi Topics: How to write kanji on shogi pieces
by HIDETCHI 5,147 views
I've just got a pen tablet, so let me do a little lecture on how to write kanjis on shogi pieces. You'll be able to make shogi pieces by yourself after seeing this video.
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Shogi Topics: BCM-Shogi用の駒画像を作成する [Japanese Version. Sorry!]
by HIDETCHI 2,287 views
ペンタブレットというものを手に入れたので、BCM-Shogi用の駒画像を自分でデザインする方法について考えてみました。興
味のある方は参考にしてみて下さい。
This video shows how I can creat my own pieces for this shogi software, BCM-Shogi. I only speak in Japanese here, but if you're interested in making pieces, you can just watch and enjoy. -
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Shogi Topics: Girl-in-the-house Puzzle, Shogi Version
by HIDETCHI 4,007 views
A block-slide puzzle in Japan called Hako-iri-musume.
