0 a Japanese game played by two people using a square board, in which each player has 20 pieces that can be moved on the board in different ways: --
Unlike professional chess tournaments, professional shogi players do not have to manage their own clocks or keep the game score.
The game was created around the mid 16th century (presumably by priests) and is based on earlier large board shogi games.
He was the third high school kid professional in shogi history following and.
However, he continues to play the game for a living by gambling at amateur shogi clubs.
As in shogi, pieces capture the same as they move.
The game is in all respects the same as shogi, except that piece moves have been transfigured for the hexagonal board-cell geometry.
In the first decade of the 21st century, computer shogi has taken large steps forward in software and hardware technology.
Habu first encountered shogi in his first year of elementary school, when his classmates taught him how the shogi pieces move.
