European/World Open Shogi Championship diary (nyanko)

ESC/WOSC (European Shogi Championship and World Open Shogi Championship) is held at once annually.
ESC is limited to European, but WOSC is open to anyone around the world.
I participated WOSC 2012, held in Krakow, Poland.
This event includes many tournaments and had held for four days.

(This picture is sited from http://shogi.pl/finish-of-esc-wosc/)

Teaching game with professional Takada-6 Dan.

I joined team tournament, Blitz, Kyoto shogi tournament and WOSC.
Although I had not know the rule of Kyoto shogi, a player taught me gently on site.
This is also fun.

 

 Kyoto shogi
(sited from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_shogi)

I enjoyed shogi and interaction with players.
I won a second prize with team tournament and Kyoto shogi tournament.

 

(Photo: Misako I.Rövekamp)

Second prize cup of Kyoto shogi. I was placed under investigation about this at airport (^^;).

After the games, many players went dinner together. We enjoyed playing shogi there, too.

I went sightseeing around Krakow.
Krakow is a safe place and very beautiful city. (it's like Kyoto for Japan)

In city.

Salt mine (underground).

Auschwitz.

Furthermore, you can see the movie of the event in youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmeaNftTTAo

My hobby is shogi and sightseeing, so I could enjoyed both and had a great experience in this travel.

This year's ESC/WOSC will take place August 20 - 23, 2015 in Prague, Czech Republic.
It must be very fun.
(Information: http://shogi2015.eu/ )