Road to Meijin

From now on, I'll be posting links to the games I've played at the start of the post. Game 1 Sente: Asado Gote: Jiří Link: https://goo.gl/CL2gWF Game 2 Sente: Asado Gote: Martin Link: https://goo.gl/VzPthZ Today I came to Mephit (the place where the shogi club takes place) with relatively large company, bringing 3 of my friends with me to the club. Unfortunately, my brother couldn't come due to having to take passport photos, but there were still many people at the club. In my first game, I tried to construct a yagura at first,  but as you can see, those plans were quickly destroyed. I believe that the game could have gone on to end diffently if I had dropped a bishop at 66 on the 41st move instead of moving my Lance. Perhaps there were better moves or ways I could have saved myself later on in the game, but I felt like I was losing after the 41st move. As for the endgame, I think I should have resigned much earlier, but I miscalculated my attack and thought I c...

Today I took my younger brother Pulato to the Shogi Club in Prague. When we arrived, Filip and Jiři were already playing a game, so I was setting up the board to have a quick game with Pulato, when suddenly a little boy came up and said he wanted to play him! Naturally, I gladly let him take my place and moved on to observe the other game that had been going on. This is the board I walked in on: As you can see, both players used very similar structures, using both their silvers and a knight to attack. Meanwhile, my brother had won his first game of shogi, mating his opponent with a cheeky knight drop! Unfortunately I do not have any pictures for that :'( A little while after, I began my game with Jiři. The playable kifu can be found here . If you follow the game, you will see that while sente was playing sankenbisha, I decided to try out my shikenbisha that I was talking about yesterday. The game progressed slowly and more or less evenly, with me taking the initiative first...

This Tuesday, that is tomorrow, I intend to try playing Shikenbisha with the mino castle on the right, like so:  Link . I have yet to use it properly in a game, so I will see how it turns out tomorrow. For that purpose, I will be recording the kifu so hopefully I'll be able to analyze the game here on this blog. In addition to that, I will be bringing my little brother to the Shogi Club for the first time tomorrow, so I wonder how it will turn out. This morning, he told me he had come up with a secret strategy against me and when we sat down to play and opened up our bishops' diagonals, he moves his knight to 77. I thought it was just a random move, since he hasn't been showing enough interest in shogi to research strategies, but the next move, he moved his knight again and I casually asked him if he was trying to "kill the demon." He laughed and told me that he watched a video by Hidetchi on YouTube ( The video, for reference ), which taught him how to do the De...