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by autocorr 1010 days ago
For those interested in playing and learning Shogi, take a look over at the great site https://lishogi.org -- a fork of LiChess for Shogi that includes real-time and correspondence play, AI opponents, analysis, puzzles and more. One of my favorite variants, Kyoto Shogi, is also available. The website https://pychess.org also has a ton of interesting and unique variants both traditional (Makruk) and modern (Chennis!).
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Mizza 1010 days ago
This is awesome, thank you.

If you want to play chess-meets-shogi, try the 'Crazyhouse' variant on lichess. I'm often fighting anonymous bullet games while waiting for CI pipelines to finish..

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Oreb 1009 days ago
Crazyhouse is a fun game, but I find it inferior to both chess and shogi. Shogi without drop moves would be rather dull. The board is too big, and the pieces too slow-moving. Chess with drop moves (i.e. Crazyhouse) is too chaotic; drops make the already powerful pieces overpowered on such a small board. Chess and shogi are both nicely balanced games, Crazyhouse is not.

Another problem with Crazyhouse is that you can’t easily play it with a physical chess set. You can only play online, which some of us find hard to enjoy.

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29athrowaway 1010 days ago
81dojo and Shogi club 24 are where most people play.
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joenot443 1010 days ago
This is neat! Does anyone know if there's much of a community of total-noob level Shogi players, as there is for chess these days?
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autocorr 1010 days ago
Absolutely! And I'm one of them :) Check out the Shogi Harbor community[1] and their Discord[2]. There's a lot of discussion there and they're very friendly.

[1] http://shogi.pl/ [2] https://disboard.org/server/653255438904590372

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theogravity 1010 days ago
Thanks for the site. I was able to learn a bit about Shogi, although I don't think I have the capacity to memorize it all at once up front.
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autocorr 1010 days ago
The kanji on the pieces adds a significant potential barrier. I started with the piece set that had little directional pips on them and different colors to help (it's the twelfth set in the piece set list when you go to the settings gear on Lishogi).
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davidguetta 1010 days ago
My god its so complicated
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