Monday, 25 January 2016

Trial of express the shogi game content by cartoon

Compared with other sports, shogi is said that it's difficult for many audience to understand the content of professional player's games, what battle is done in the game, from kifu.
Therefore, I try to express the brief content by cartoon (of course, I also can't find the actual content in detail but be able to grasp overview).

The below is a cartoon which describe the 5th game of Ryuou title match last year, which Akira Watanabe won the Ryuou title against Tetsurou Itodani (I've been affected by Dragon Ball).
In this game, Itodani Ryuou formed rare castle and then Watanabe attacked fiercely. Even after Itodani persisted with King entering, Watanabe won by the lack of piece points of Itodani.


You can see the real kifu in here.
http://live.shogi.or.jp/ryuou/kifu/28/ryuou201512020101.html

I wonder this trial is good or not. I think this trial is difficult for me, but has more room to improve.

So, if you have a comment, please advise me.


Sunday, 17 January 2016

Prepare for the opponent's attack

Quiz; What will you move in figure. 1?

figure. 1


In playing shogi, it's important to foresee the next effective attack by opponent and prepare or (defend) for it in advance.

If you attack as like L*4c, the opponent would move P*1f (figure. 2).
This attack is severe, because if you take Sx1f, the opponent would +R3h, else if you take Kx1f, then Lx1e, Kx1e, +Rx1h, Sx1h, L*1d (check mated).

figure. 2

Therefore it's necessary to prepare for the opponent's attack Px1d in figure. 1.
So I moved G-3i (figure. 3).
One of objects of G-3i is to capture the opponent's Dragon, and the other is to make it possible to take Sx1f against the opponent's attack Px1f (G-3i is reached by B-6f).

figure. 3
By G-3i, I succeeded in shutout the opponent's attack.
The entire kifu is shown below.