Welcome to our 4th Shogi game !

If you are unfamiliar with Shogi, here's a good introduction:  Shogi

ramalam is playing sente, and Kopaka is playing gote.

To the participants:  Please track this forum so you'll know when it is your turn to move.

The time control is 3 days per move.  No vacations, unless agreed to by both participants.  No computers.  Databases are OK.

Just post your move to this forum and I will update the board diagram below as soon as possible.

Use the following abbreviations.

King ... K               Rook ... R

Bishop ... B           Knight ... N

Lance ... L            Silver ... S

Gold … G              Pawn ... P

For promoted pieces use + sign in front of a piece latter (example: +R –promoted rook)

For drops use * sign, x for capture and – for normal move of the piece.

Example notation for first couple of moves:

1.  P7g-7f        P3c-3d
2.  P6g-6f        P8c-8d

Arrow indicate the last move.

 Kopaka resigned.

      Move List

    Sente        Gote

  1. P-7f       P-3d

  2. P-2f       G-3b

  3. S-4h       G-7b

  4. G-7h       S-6b

  5. G-5h       Bx8h+

  6. Sx8h       S-4b

  7. K-4i        P-9d

  8. P-9f        L-9c

  9. P-2e       R-9b

10. P-2d       G-3c

11. Px2c+     gote resigns

Hi Sahist,

If nobody else has already started , I'd like to play this one?

Hi,

of course you can do it and I'm happy that there is progress in shogi promoting, but may I ask, what's wrong with BrainKing, which seems for me is working the same, but automatic so no human have to waste time?

Bernhard

  I sure don't think of it as 'wasting time'! I can only hope it will draw some people from chess.com to this wonderful game!

Ok, ramalam is sente, anyone want to play gote in this game?

I'll play gote, i've been looking foward to a game!

 Splendid! ramalam it's your move.

P-7f

Excellent.

Thanks Sahist4.

Good luck Kopaka

As the Japanese would say : Onegaishimasu.

P-3D

P-2f

G- 3B

S-4h

G-7B

4 G-7h

 I agree with Sahist4 , it's another way of promoting this great game ; definitely not a waste of time.

S-6b

5 G-5h

Bx8h

If the piece is promoted you should put a + sign after the move, so: 5. Bx8h+ if it stay unpromoted you can put = .

6 Sx8h

S-4B. Sorry about the promotion thing. I'll try to remember that.