Shogi Brothers!
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, until I made the first big mistake in my opinion: move number 20, N73. I should have taken the pawn with a silver, and I believe that would have given me an advantage, but I misread the situation and thought that my bishop would be mated if I did not have the silver behind the knight -.-
After that, it is pretty clear how the game went strongly towards Jiři, so I did not get my chance to try out any 4th file attack strategies I had in mind. If you think that I had some good moves at any time throughout the game which I did not notice, please feel free to either branch the kifu I linked and leave a link in the comments, or just give me some tips in the comments. After all, the main purpose of this blog is to document my improvement in shogi and my path to playing like a Meijin!
At about 20:15, I was ready to leave and head home, but my brother was so concentrated in a game that I had to watch and wait for him to finish. He was in a bad situation and was close to being mated, but he still sat there, carefully thinking out every move and fighting as hard as he could. This was a shock for me, since when we play at home and I gain even the slightest advantage, he gives up almost immediately or tries to cheat - I guess being surrounded by people trying their hardest to concentrate had an effect on him. All in all, he was very excited even after losing and told me he wants to come to the club every week now. Now we can both use each other to become stronger in Shogi!
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, until I made the first big mistake in my opinion: move number 20, N73. I should have taken the pawn with a silver, and I believe that would have given me an advantage, but I misread the situation and thought that my bishop would be mated if I did not have the silver behind the knight -.-
After that, it is pretty clear how the game went strongly towards Jiři, so I did not get my chance to try out any 4th file attack strategies I had in mind. If you think that I had some good moves at any time throughout the game which I did not notice, please feel free to either branch the kifu I linked and leave a link in the comments, or just give me some tips in the comments. After all, the main purpose of this blog is to document my improvement in shogi and my path to playing like a Meijin!
At about 20:15, I was ready to leave and head home, but my brother was so concentrated in a game that I had to watch and wait for him to finish. He was in a bad situation and was close to being mated, but he still sat there, carefully thinking out every move and fighting as hard as he could. This was a shock for me, since when we play at home and I gain even the slightest advantage, he gives up almost immediately or tries to cheat - I guess being surrounded by people trying their hardest to concentrate had an effect on him. All in all, he was very excited even after losing and told me he wants to come to the club every week now. Now we can both use each other to become stronger in Shogi!
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