How to play Shogi (Japanese Chess)
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RULES
The object of the game is to capture your opponent’s King. Setup. Layout the board. Each player sets out their pieces so the pointed end faces towards their opponent. All pieces start with the black side up and are arranged in the following order: Pawns are placed across the 3rd row. On the second row, place the bishop on the second space in from the left and the rook on the second space in from the right. On the bottom row, going from left to right, the order is: Lance, knight, Silver General, Gold General, King, gold general, silver general, knight, lance. The opposing king will have an extra mark differentiating it. Pick a player to go first, then turns alternate.
On your turn, you must move 1 piece or drop 1 piece. The King can move 1 space in any direction. The Gold General can move 1 space in any direction except diagonally backwards. The silver general can move one space diagonally in any direction or one space forward. The knight can jump 1 space forward then 1 space diagonally forward. The knight is the only piece allowed to jump over other pieces in its path. The Lance can move any number of free spaces forward. The bishop can move any number of free spaces in any diagonal direction. The rook can move any number of free spaces forward, backward, left, or right. A pawn can only move 1 space forward.
Each player has a promotion zone on the farthest third of the board, the 3 rows that their opponent’s pieces started on. If a piece moves into, out of, or within the promotion zone, the player may choose to promote the piece at the end of the turn. Promotion is indicated by turning the piece over after a move, showing its promoted value, typically the red side.
The promoted silver general, promoted knight, promoted lance, and the promoted pawn can move as a Gold General, 1 space in any direction except diagonally backwards. The promoted bishop can move any number of free spaces in any diagonal direction or 1 space forwards, backwards, left, or right. The promoted rook can move any number of free spaces forward, backward, left, or right; or 1 space in any diagonal direction.
If a piece reaches the far side of the board so that it would no longer have a legal move on future turns, it must be promoted. Pieces remain promoted until they are captured.
Your pieces may not share a space with another piece but instead capture the first opponent’s piece they move into. Captured pieces are removed from the board and placed on the capturer’s side of the table in plain view of both players.
On your turn, instead of moving a piece, you may choose to add 1 of the pieces you have captured onto any vacant space on the board. This is called dropping a piece. The piece is always dropped with its un-promoted value face up. You may not drop a pawn onto a column which already contains one of your unpromoted pawns, but you are allowed to if that pawn was promoted. A pawn may not be dropped to give immediate checkmate, however, other pieces may be dropped to give immediate checkmate. No piece may be dropped onto a space from which it will have no possible future moves. If you drop a piece on the promotion zone, your piece does not get promoted until it moves on a future turn.
When your king is able to be captured during your opponent’s next turn it is called being in “check”. When your king is in check you must protect it and get it out of check. If it is impossible to save the king, then it is called checkmate. The first player to checkmate their opponent’s king, wins.
The interesting thing about Shogi is that you can place the pieces you have taken. The game gets more complicated as you get to the endgame.
The endgame can start really fast however Though it usually lasts really long
Yes, using the pieces that you've captured from the opponent is a rule inspired by the Sengoku period warfare when many generals betrayed their lords.
in theory games can last forever - in chess you gradually have less and less pieces until eventually an endgame on a nearly empty board while master Shogi matches can last days since its much harder to force an endgame
there really isn't an endgame just a more and more complex middlegame until checkmate
maybe there isn't an endgame, like crazyhouse in chess
This is Dark Soul Chess.
it's like drinking tap water at joey goncia's house
Naruto's chess.
@@quixotes4478 Shogi rules? What for?
1000th like brutha
@@quixotes4478 it's the fortnite of chess cuz u can drop down anywhere.
I need shikamarus help..
That would be such a drag though.
@@Alresu best comment aha
@@elicapri6918 mendokuse~
Shikimaru
Shikamaru would say what a drag and then make a shogi engine to solve all his problems
*imagine playing chess you can just drop down the opponent queen after you capture them lmfao*
Ever heard of Crazyhouse or Doublehouse Chess?
There are variants where you can actually do that
so like in call of duty. the better you play the easier the game is with the bonuses
Trần Marsherest double house? You mean bughouse?
If that would be too easy for you, Hostage Chess might be a good alternative. You must "pay" with another piece you captured, in order to place your captured pieces back onto the board
i always think about how immensely difficult it must have been to create and refine this game and its rules.
They just mixed chess and checkers and refined it
Yea they just made a chess fangame.
Theres actually a chalange mode with a 30 by 30 map
So is every board game in existence. It is a long process of refinement...
They already had a base in an indian game i cannot remember the name of. That game is the root of a tree, with chess and shogi as 2 branches.
Promotions, capturing units, drops, the Japanese were playing tactical RPGs 800 years ago.
Japanese games are all fun, until it gets weird. I mean look at Hanafuda. It is a nice card game in which you win by combining cards to make a suit stronger than the oponent suit (Much like poker) The difference is the biggest suit you can make (Gokou, the Five Brights) When you must collect the Willow and the Caligrapher, Pine with Crane, Cherry Blossom with Curtain, Paulownia with Phoenix and Grass with Moon. There is exaclty one (1) of each in any given deck.
Bunch of nerds, right ??
For Westeners and beginners, there is a new project named shogito, which is shogi but with shapes that show which moves are allowed. For instance, the bishop is x shaped and the rook is a + . This makes it much easier to get into shogi!
Or just screenshot something, like how I did. Also includes Orthodox, Omega, Compound, Ultima, and Xiangqi. Idk where Omega, Compound, and Ultima come from
Oh, that's very helpful. 😄
i need shogito
That's not really necessary tho. You just need to do a few easy puzzles with the kanji pieces and you'll learn to tell them apart in just a couple hours. I don't know any japanese at all and it worked pretty well for me
That just sucks the soul out of it The use of kanji is part of the appeal
I took an ultra-fine Sharpie and marked the pieces with P, B, R, L, N, S, G, and K. On the sides with promotions, I put the letter and a + next to it. That helps you learn. One tip, NEVER promote a Silver General. Being able to back up in two directions is better than the Gold General only being able to back up in one direction.
You could also buy Shogito. In that version of shogi, the pieces are all shaped in the way they are allowed to move. it's really cleverly designed!
It depends Sometimes gold general are better for attacking king
Excellent tip
I was thinking while watching the video about how promoting a silver general might actually be detrimental since the piece only loses its unique two tile-diagonally-backwards movements whereas the other pieces gain (much) more flexibility in exchange for their gimmicks.
I disagree. The gold is the strongest piece to mate and is often better at protecting and supporting the rooks and bishops during offense. Its highly circumstantial
I know the ending, The king is the children
Wrong
The king is the next generation
@@LeoLCDT Liiiies
oh my god naruto fan yess
The king is the children
I think shogi's tougher than chess. Here, you can't afford to sacrifice pieces, like in chess. The opponent can use them if you do.
i mean, u can still sacrifice pieces lol...
@@Barsikspit 'Can' is a different thing. Of course, there's no rule as such stating that you can't sacrifice pieces, but it won't be as beneficial as in Chess.
they have to take a turn to place it tho which gives time to win or set up, shikamaru disagrees with this statement
अजिङ्क्य गोखले There are tons of tsumes (forced checkmates) where you have to sacrifice pieces to win
@@user-vo8ep8jz8c I'm a fairly decent Shogi player, and I would say in fact sacrificing is a big part of Shogi end game. In a lot of high level games you'll see a common trend being the attacker keep sacrificing to gain tempo, and ending the game with the defending side lose while having like 5-10 high value pieces in hand. This also creates a strategic depth, in which if your attack didn't end up in a checkmate sequence, there's a very high chance that you're gonna get checkmated with a counter attack.
In Japan, the popularity of Shogi is accelerating due to the success of Sota Fujii, a young genius of only 17 years old, but how well is he known overseas? He has a winning percentage of 83% and is said to be a genius who has surpassed anime or manga.
If you play shogi in the west you definitely know Fujii
Most people in the west don't even know other variants of Chess exist.
people don't even know chess properly
Thanks for introducing him!
I only know about it from Naruto
The king is the children and people who live in the village.
Nara shikamaru
Asuma 😭❤️
Hahahahahaa!
I know🌝🌝
@@labeebabeed5420 asuma actually
I barely understand Chess, so I wonder if Japanese Chess is any easier. *Video explains* Ah, I see my cranium has exploded & my brain has launched up into Mars.
If you get a mobile app, a lot of them have English lettering and will show you where you can move your pieces
@@warandconquest6522 The Clubhouse Games version on Switch also has that option, along with a "mini" variant with a smaller board size and fewer total pieces.
Why don't you check sovereign chess
I've played this. Being able to drop captured pieces and the promotion aspect add more dimensions to the game making it harder than western chess or chinese chess imo. It's downright scary. Captured pieces never go away but can be used against you at any point and anywhere on the board.
There is no western chess lol.
its indian chess not western(cause chess is created in india)
"Western chess" Tell me you want to make Japanese stuff look superior over anything else without telling me you want to make Japanese stuff look superior over anything else.
@@thanoof I've only played it on one occasion, and that's my honest opinion. Does it bother you??? If I'm trying to put Asian stuff over "Western," then why did I put the Japanese over Chinese, huh???? And to all those butt hurt I called western chess western chess, that's how it's commonly called and you know it, good grief. Why don't you go change the world instead of nitpicking on a comment???
@@thanoof Western chess is a term frequently used to distinguish itself from xiangqi and shogi. I highly doubt he used the word western with the intention to be condescending or derogatory.
POV: You're a Yakuza fan who's trying to understand how this works
Caught me 😭
Me too....
I'm a naruto fan
Got me, plus being pretty good at chess all I'm thinking is "This mini-game is going to give me a stroke"
Yup
Always wanted to play shogi, how different from chess could it be? *you can drop a piece on any square on the board* what
It’s like crazy house, but if you can place the pawns at the end of the board
you just need to know that you can make a pawn go *_left_*
Since shogi is more complex, it requires more creativity. Dropping the pieces is actually the fun part of the game
It's basically a tactical RPG in board game form. Units even "level up". It's quite similar to modern tactical board games like 40k or Battletech where you choose where to place your units. The Japanese were way ahead of their time with this game.
@@roblangada4516 Dropping pieces reminds me of Infinity the game (another sci fi board game) in wich you can parachute spec ops into the board at any time.
How the hell am I supposed to remember this? I can't even read the pieces
its really easy after you play for a month or so.
@@stumpfjean-luc4950 thank you for saying this. So many people shy away from game because they think they actually have to be able to read the charakters. As though one could deduce the movements of a knight in chess just by seeing it is a horse.
Hahahahha a
@@shogiteacher7093 very true
51 Worldwide Classics depicts the pieces with their assigned letter in english. Of course, there is a setting for the shogi pieces to be in their original japanese text.
Just started watching March Comes in Like a Lion. Thought I should at least know what the H this game is even played like.
Currently, a 17-year-old prodigy prodigy over March Comes in Like a Lion is very active in Japan. He became a professional in junior high school and has always maintained a winning percentage of 80%, winning two tournaments last year. I hope you will learn his name, Sota Fujii.
same. but i watched this video after i came to the second season's halfway
Same here
Here before starting the series Needed a little more context before going in
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I wanna learn so I can play with shikamaru.
Aasuma never won against him.
At least I can play with him.
@@tcs6106 So let me get this straight. If by some crazy miracle, you are transported in an anime world where you can shoot chakra out of your hands, you're main goal would be to play a board game with a fictional character. Priorities, man.
@@bushy9780 or I can just play with the voice actors
Would be too much of a drag for him to play with you though.
Memorize the symbols a lot of times and you'll know what piece they are.
Wow just stunning advice, thanks
That's how I learned them
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
_____ | _____ | _____\
@@partlygeneric6855 no it can’t be😢
I live in Japan, own a shogi set, would love to play with others. I hope this ruleset tells me enough and I remember so that I don't get confused, because my Japanese is only middling and there's tons of places communication could get tricky.
Just like chess, this looks easy to learn the basics but extremely difficult to master
I might add that i) if the same four boards appear by repetition, it is considered a draw, and most often a sequential match begins with changed sides(White/Black in chess terms). ii)delivering perpetual checks(by four) is illegal, and the attacker will lose the game.
Just to clarify, does "perpetual check" here just mean any four moves in a row that an opponent gets check, or is this just referring to the repetitive attacks that result in draws in regular chess? If it's the former, that's pretty brutal to the player that is just trying to push the opponent into a planned checkmate or work their way out of an otherwise inevitable incoming checkmate. If it's the latter, then that makes sense to make the repetitive attacker lose rather than giving them a draw.
@@SgtSupaman I am referring to the latter. It may be more accurate to call them “repetitive continuous checks” that are illegal. There’s one tricky part; the board of which one move before the checks begin is counted in the “no repetitive continuous checks by four” rule. Therefore, the King might not be in check when the defender claims the attacker illegal, i.e, the board is in the sequence of “before check (1), check, evades(the same board before check)(2), check, evades(3), check, evades(4)”. This also stands when longer sequences of checks are repeated by four. :)
I missed the step were I become Meruem?
gungi is really different from shogi, though.
Gungi isnt even real lol
@@santinoespinoza7471 would be cool if it was.
bro same
Oh it's a simple one, you just gotta get radiation poisoning.
とっても丁寧で、分かりやすいですね🎵
This is a beautiful game! I gotta get a set!
So wonderful video about how to learn Japanese Chess (Shougi = 将棋), I suppose. Thanks a lot for introducing one of Japan's traditional cultures.
This seems like a really interesting version of chess and surprisingly similar and easy to learn the rules (but probably hard to master)
Even though some look different I'm pretty sure there's something the same like the king each one Ive seen it has a mark with a line going down and 3 across so that's how i memorized it.
Thank you,this video really helps
Nice and clear instructions, gonna play this with the boys next week
Years ago I had a Shogi game that ran on Windows 95 and it had letters to denote their English names. It was very helpful as I don't read Japanese. Using symbols could also be useful, as is found in some Xianqi sets aimed for an international audience. The nearest equivalent in western Chess to Shogi is Bughouse, BTW.
Actually madhouse, bughouse is doubles
Nice introduction of Shogi to those new to it!an interesting fact is that Shogi has the same ancestry of chess.this is why they are similar in rule Actually nights called 桂馬（けいま）in Japanese include kanji character indicating a horse 馬 there are similarities like this but I think it make shogi difficult that shogi has more blocks on the table and dropping rule that enable troops to be strategic use Shogi is widely considered as a traditional table game in Japan so I found it very surprising to know they are like brothers Sorry for my terrible English
The moves are subtle but the playing is very strategic!
【Pieces】 English Japanese Pronunciation Pawn 歩兵 Huhyō Bishop 角行 Kakugyō Rook 飛車 Hisha Lance 香車 Kyōsha Knight 桂馬 Keima S. General 銀将 Ginsyō G. General 金将 Kinsyō King 王将 Ōsyō King 玉将 Gyokusyō 【Promotion Pieces】 Pawn と金 Tokin Bishop 竜馬 Ryūma Rook 竜王 Ryūō Lance 成香 Narikyō Knight 成桂 Narikei S. General 成銀 Narigin
I only know about this because of May comes like a Lion. great anime. never thought i'd enjoy an anime about chess, but it was beautifully done. Thanks for explaining!
For you to learn to familiarize with the pieces and characters in them, read and call them by their actual Japanese to English translation of Characters. Pawn - Foot Soldier Bishop - Angle Mover Rook - Flying Chariot Lance - Incense Chariot Knight - Laurelled Horse Silver General Gold General King - Royal General Other King - Jade General Promoted Bishop - Dragon Horse Promoted Rook - Dragon King Other Promotions - Gold ______
Is the promoted silver general a gold silver general?
I knew Dragon Horse and Dragon King,
Those translations make it even harder to remember and familiarize 💀
I don't have such weaknesses (smirks in Kanji)
I came here after watching Shikamaru's importance and March comes like a lion.
Thanks, very helpful
Thanks. the Dropping the Piece had me the most confused when I played the Yakuza games.
I did not imagine shogi being so much more complicated than chess.
打ち歩詰めの説明もしているのは好感が持てますね
This is just what I needed right now.
Shogi is a fun Two-Players game. Players move Pieces across the board, and try to capture their opponent's King, by putting the pieces into a checkmate position, very similar to Chess. Each players has 20 Pieces. (1 King) (2 Gold Genetrals) (2 Silver Generals) (2 Knights) (2 Lances) (1 Rook) (1 Bishop) And (9 Pawns) To set up the board, both players assemble their pieces on opposite sides of the board, with the black sides facing up. Then, Players take turns moving one of their pieces at a time across the board. Each pieces must be moved according to different rules, and 2 Pieces can never occupy the same square. Pawns can move forward 1 square at a time. Bishops can move any numbers of spaces diagonally. Rooks can move any number of spaces forward, backward, left, or right. Lances can move forward any number of spaces. Knights can move 2 squares forward, and 1 square sideways, to the left or right. And Knights are the only pieces that can jump over other pieces. Silver Generals can move 1 square in 1 of 5 directions: Forward, Diagonally Forward, or Diagonally Backwards. Gold Generals can move 1 square in 1 of 6 directions: Forward, Diagonally Forward, Sideways, or Backwards. Kings can move 1 square in any directions: Diagonally, Forward, Backward, Left or Right. To weaken your opponent, Capture their pieces by moving one of your pieces into the space occupied by the piece you want to take, then remove the captured piece from the board. On any turn, Instead of moving a piece on the board, A player can pick one of the pieces they've captured and put it back onto the board. You can do so, by taking that captured piece and putting it on any empty square with the black side up. The piece now belongs to them, And they can move it across the board as their own. This is called a Drop, and counts as a complete move. The last 3 Rows on each side of the board, are the Promotion Zones. When you move one of your pieces into a Promotion Zone, you have the option of flipping the piece over with its red side facing up, to promote it. All pieces can be promoted, Except Kings, and Gold Generals. Once a piece is promoted, it remains flipped until it gets captured or the game ends. Promoted pieces are more powerful, because they no longer their former rules. Promoted Knights, Silver Generals, Lances, and Pawns, can now move just like Gold Generals. A Promoted Rook, can move like a Rook, or a King. A Promoted Bishop can move like a Bishop, or a King. During gameplay, you have 2 Main goals: To protect your King from bring Captured, and to attack your opponent's King from all sides so that you can capture it. You can put your opponent's King in check, by moving a piece into position, to potentially capture their King on your next move. Whoever captures their Opponent's King first, Wins the game.
This is a lot more simple than I would have thought. Neat.
The rules are the same as Chess, except: • The board is 9x9, with your starting area being 9x3. 9 Pawns (歩兵) on the front row, a Bishop (角行) 1 space away from the left end of the middle row, a Rook (飛車) 1 space away from the right end of the middle row, and the following pieces from the center outward in the bottom row: King (王 or 玉), Gold (金), Silver (銀), Knight (桂馬), Lance (香車). • Captured pieces can be placed down in arbitrary places as your own piece. However, 2 Pawns may not occupy the same column. • Pawns do not move 2 spaces or capture en passant. • Knights can only move forward 2 and sideways 1. • Unique piece types: Lances move forward any number of unobstructed spaces. Silver moves 1 space forward or diagonally. Gold moves 1 space orthogonally or forward-and-diagonally. • Promotion: Your opponent’s home 9x3 area is the promotion zone. When a piece moves into, within, or out of the zone (Placing down a captured piece does not count.), the piece has the choice to flip over to its red side and promote, unless the piece cannot normally move anymore, then it MUST promote. • Most pieces promote to a Gold. On top of their existing moves, Rooks and Bishops gain the ability to move like a King. • No castling.
I don't feel one can say the rules are same as chess lol With new movements and especially dropping pieces you captured. It's a new game
@@shreyaskumar9175 I agree
It's a running joke, watch the video about 5D chess
Thank you! Glad I found this. Kept running into references to the pieces in various anime, and finally just watched an anime episode that identified it as "shogi." ^_^
Waiting patiently for all the shogi variations!
Such as Duck Shogi and Shogi Bughouse
Game Setup: Always start from the first rank (of player's perspective) and work forward. Each player takes turn placing their pieces on the board, starting with the King in the center, followed by Gold generals (gold), then Silver Generals (Silver), then knights, then Lance. Setup is left to right, so you would place a Gold General to the left of the king, before placing a gold general to the right of the king. After the first rank is done, you move to the second rank, placing Bishop first, then Rook. Then the third rank, left->right, the pawns. After the board is set up, the player with the Jeweled General (usually the lower ranking player, or the challenger, and it's the king with the differentiating mark), does a piece toss, which involves tossing 5 of their pawns. If the total number of promoted pawns face up, is greater than the unpromoted pawns, the player who tossed, gets to go first, else the other player makes first move.
I assume the piece toss is done before that player has set up their front line? Or are they expected to set their pieces up completely and redo those 5 after taking them off the board and tossing them?
Its a pretty easy game & you too can win every match with this simple trick, Don't play shogi, just tell everyone that you're really good at it. Undefeated champion even. People challenge you to a match? Decline, they will never be good enough to even hold a candle to your skill. In order for you to remain as the undefeated champ you can't take part in Shogi games. you never play shogi = you never lose at shogi = you're the undefeated champion at shogi. Now you're a shogi master like me.
There's a PC game called Pawnbarian that come out a few months ago, in which you can play as one of three characters which draw their movement abilities from cards representing chess pieces. Well, two of the three characters do - the third uses shogi pieces! Fun way to learn about shogi even if you don't have a set...
I remember seeing this game as a kid years ago. I also love that it's beloved by the dad's of Ranma and Akane in Ranma 1/2. Cool video. ^_^
This chess variant is cool. ~~bad jokes~~ 5D shogi with multiverse time travel?
This is a bit more complex than I imagined.
a "bit"?
This game is way more complicated than chess! I love it. May take 6 3 months or more to play fluidly
There used to be many kind of shogi. Taikyoku-shogi, the biggest one, surprisingly required very big board and 804 piece conposed of many types and their backs
Man I’ve always seen Shogi in anime but only vaguely known how it’s played, so this was very interesting.
Shogi: Like Chess, but can promote your units like Fire Emblem.
Don't forget you can recruit units you have captured from the battlefield.
Wonderful presentation. Applause from Bao Electronic Game-The African Bao in digital format.
never seen such a calm explanation of anything before wtf
No wonder my Japanese friends couldn’t ever explain to me, even when my proficiency in their language was at its peak! Syōgi is to chess what chess is to checkers.
That was super concise yet informative! I'm here cuz I was watching an anime called "Ryūō no Oshigoto!" (The Ryuo's Work!), if you've seen the anime, you know that you were not originally watching it for Shogi ;)
lolis 😳
exactly
Ah, finally someone mention this anime. I forgot since I watched it last year.
Also there's one thing nobody bothers to mention, you can't drop pawn in last row of opponents camp for a good reason because unpromoted pawn can't move backwards verticaly and it's unpromoted when you drop it 8th row is as far as you can go because you can drop pawn where it cannot move. For High value pieces like lance for eyample 7th row is as far as you can go when you wanna drop it. Rows i mentioned are from your perspective as a player.
I've been playing shogi on my phone for awhile without knowing the rules. So, this helps out.
Came here cause Hifumi Togo from Persona 5 inspired me to play this. Ohh and Kisei from Onmyoji/Onmyoji Arena as well.
I came here for Hifumi as well
Shikamaru nara
Same ^^ Still looking for the 'Inferno Fireblast' move she talked about :)
Thing:😐😐 Thing (Japan): 😱😱😱
1:15 the Silver General is also called the Elephant because the way it moves
The drop rule is only present in the standard 9x9 variant The largest variant is taikyoku shogi, which is played on a 36x36 board with over 100 pieces per player and no drop rule, and pieces promote when they capture other specific pieces.
that's awesome as f**ck also absolutely mortifying to look at
Gotta be absolutely epic to play a game like that, although i'm pretty sure a single game would take like 10 hours
@@tellahsage6477 A Japanese TV program tried it, and it takes over 32 hours with 3000 turns
Shogi “A sport wherein one fires laser beams from their butt” Maeda, from Asobi Asobase
Good intro. I've been trying to find some reference for the official dimensions of *standard* Shogi pieces and and the size of the squares on it. I have come up empty so far. Surely there must be something official, particularly for the pieces and boards used in the Japanese tournament games? I've seen some sites with boards with 37x35 mm squares, and others with 36x33 mm squares. Some places even have boards with perfectly square squares, which I think is just wrong. I realize in some sense it doesn't really matter, but I'd like to buy a board and pieces as close to the Japanese cultural standard as possible. Or perhaps even make my own!
I like the perfectly square squares.
Very usefull
sounds like chess with extra steps... I love it
Anyone else from march comes in like a lion?
Hai! 😁🖐🏻
Just started it lol, thought it might help if i had some vague idea what they were doing
Nope, i know Shogi from "Pop Team Epic"
80% of comments: Im here because of (insert anime name) 20% of comments: Wow, its just like chess!
it is chess, but harder and weirder!
Me who came from both Anime in my case - March comes in like a lion (3-gatsu no lion)
@@sfisher923 I'm more a fan of Ryuuou no Oshigoto! (Loli does shoji)
@@similar_username Thanks for the Recommendation I guess
Thank you mr shogi man
man you gotta admit that chess has shogi beat in visual clarity
The difficult part of shogi is that you always have to think about which pieces to throw away when attacking the enemy's line. The discarded piece becomes the opponent's weapon, so if you make a mistake in attacking, your opponent may finish you off with the piece you were using until a while ago. Also, when you don't have enough pieces to cripple your opponent, there is also a strategy such as making the opponent attack on purpose in order to obtain the pieces from the opponent.
i think the last thing you said was incorrect. ive been playing shogi online for a little over a year (not straight) and its always play to capture the king, not play to checkmate. also, if you are in check (not mate) and you make a move that doesnt save the king, its on you. you dont have to say "check" and if they dont realize it, then they lose. other then that, great intro to shogi!
I installed a shogi app on my phone and there you can't let your king be captured (the app just doesn't let you make a move that doesn't protect your king)
That means the code used to make the shogi on that website is wrong, you win by checkmating your opponent's king, not capturing it, just like in chess. Either the person who writes the code doesn't know or he is simply too lazy. You know, just checking whether a king has been taken at the end of each turn is much easier to code, compared to checking whether a position is a checkmate.
You play to checkmate, there is no capturing the king. Saying "check" is not required in shogi, and leaving the king in trouble is simply in illegal move.
Had to check if this was posted April first.
The chess variant crazyhouse also lets you bring back pieces you have captured.
You don't have to checkmate your opponent's king in Shogi, you can just capture it to win the game, so you can win the game if your opponent is careless about their king. The king in western chess being uncapturable eliminates this same carelessness from being much of a problem.
The king is never captured. Either the opponent resigns or they forfeit through an illegal move.
Trying to learn so I can enjoy 3 gatsu more
Hi, I saw two mistakes in your video. Not sure if somwone had have already told you yet. So i'll point them out for you. First, and foremost IMPORTANT! >> ALL regular game sets have BOTH sides on BLACK ink. > You used on the top of the board the "Jade King, or, 「GYOKU 玉」instead the [Ou 王]" The first (gyouku) means Jewel, or Jade. And is used by "Sente" (the lower level player), while the OU (king /emperor) is used by "Gote", which is the player with more game experience. When both players are on the same strengh level, they do one of 2: The senior goes last (take Ou, and GOTE position), or they do the "Furigoma", toss 5 "panws" (usually the older one), and if the one who tossed the panw got more "panws [Fu]" he start the game as Sente. If there more promoted panws [TOKIN] then he get GOTE [Ou], and them the can Alternate the positions. or keep the OU the player who win the game. And one little point! STANDRD board are also RECTANGULAR. {30 cm by 33 cm} (a little large/ tall than wide, like the pieces) The NARROW sides are the side near the players. And the "Large" sides are the ones across the players. (foldable portable board, usually goes the blending vertically "by the large side 15x33cm"). Only Low quality sets, or "pportable" magnetic are usually the only ones of square (same size all 4 sides) sizes. Cheers. PS: I am not the stronger player, just a regular "8kyu (900 elo rating)" by FESA (Federation of European Shogi Asociations).
Shogi is a very interesting and strategic game. I want it to be more popular outside of Japan! Thank you for introducing it.
May God Bless you all and your loved ones
Cool, now go away.
@@Vintagesonic1God Bless. Hopefully you considered following the Lord.
Well yeah, hopefully my god will help me in Shogi competitions
Now Hifumi will be proud of me
Took me a while to find this comment
4:33 the genuine smile on his face 🥲
cus the drop piece rule shogi's complexity is way bigger than normal chess
Need this because Yakuza.
Does it help?
here because I’m a simp for akashi seijuro (kuroko no basket)
Wow I've never heard of this game and I'd probably like it
Chess 2 looking fire 🔥🔥
Everyone: I want to learn how to play so I can play with Shikamaru! Me: I wanna learn so I can play with Hifumi XD
Hifumi who? Hifumi Yamada?
@@zachnado69 I thought that too. 😂
@@zachnado69 Hifumi Togo, a character from the videogame persona 5, she's known as a talented shogi player that "teaches" the main character strategy and real time tactics through shogi.
@@mrshadowmax1 i see
@L That could be as well, but i doubt that someone that's already a player and knows about the pros is here on a tutorial
As someone who has never played chess, shogi is like practicing with weights. I was utterly dumbfounded by the fact that chess players have TWO rooks and don't have to worry about which pieces die.
they do have to worry about which pieces die. Pawns are generally given a value of one, bishops and knights are 3, rooks are 5, and queens are 9. these values are considered throughout a professional game of chess and if more points are threatened, the defender will usually block the attack with a less valuable piece.
"I have never played chess yet I can make judgements about what game required what to think".
@@harishpatil5055 yes, because I have a little something called “friends” who actually do play the game.
Few more rules: 1. About the stalemate, Unlike chess, shogi has a different rules about it. Following conditions are considered a lose: i. You have no legal move, and any moves will lead to a check. I know it's a stalemate in chess, but it's a lose to the player who have no legal moves in shogi ii. Threefold repetition, if these moves are checking, the attacking side loses. Otherwise it's a stalemate. iii. Both kings are in the opposite side of promoting zone, and are unable to attack the opponent's king effectively. Then the game ends, the result is decided by calculating the value of the pieces.
This could be the most difficult style of Chess for me to play because of the Japanese Letterings and how it's played differently then the traditional chess
i played this once and agreed on a draw after mutual brain hurt
finally have an excuse that will get me to learn kanji
Same
Yes.
So obviously this is a few years late, but I just got recommended this video and I can't help but notice that the description is for an entirely different video teaching how to play BACKGAMMON. Don't know if that's something the creator would want to correct after all this time or if it even really matters. Aside from that, very educational. Always was curious about this game.
They fixed it about 3 months ago