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What do you actually do doing the middlegame?
How's that for an epic question?
I'm sorry but there's virtually nothing available in English for shogi apart from the basics, ie initially build a fortress for you king, defend with 3 generals, use your rook, bishop, silver and knight to attack. Beyond that vague advice I'm pretty much on my own. I look out for obvious tactical things like forks, and I'll see if there's any way of promoting a piece of mine, or if I can prevent the opponent from promoting a piece.
I have downloaded a list of "shogi proverbs" but almost all of them are too philosophical to be of much use "1 pawn is worth a thousand Golds" etc.
If anyone would like to write up a 50 page essay of shogi strategy just for me that would be great! But I can hardly expect that so I would appreciate, well, basically any advice on strategy.