[joenot443]

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?

[autocorr]

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