I'm surprised to see a few shogi discussions on this forum. I'm glad there's interest in the igo community.
I guess a shogi thread is appropriate for me to introduce myself in. I'm hirohiigo, the webmaster of The 81-Square Universe, and I've dedicated my life to promoting and teaching people shogi. Nice to meet you all. I was an occasional member of Go Discussions when it was still around, and I've been lurking on Life in 19x19 for a few months. I also play igo a bit, but don't have many people to play with, so I'm still pretty weak.
I would be more than happy to help teach people from L19x19 to play shogi. As Christos said, Hidetchi's videos are the best place to learn shogi; they're where I learned to play and I would never recommend anything else as a starting point. If you watch his whole "How to Play Shogi" series it should bring you to about 15-kyu (or 10-kyu in Japanese rankings). His "Shogi Exercises" series is also a great resource if you are unable to import tsumeshogi and tesuji books from Japan.
If you want to study shogi, even if you choose not to become as serious as you are with igo, I recommend you join the forums on The 81-Square Universe, which you can find here. It's basically the L19x19 of shogi, and although it's not as active as L19x19 seems, it has many players who are more than happy to give advice.
By the way, if you plan to start a shogi club in person, you might be interested in my Incentive to start American shogi clubs. In a nutshell, I'll personally buy your club a shogi set if you start a club of 5 or more members, and another set at 10 members, 20 members, etc. I'll also buy your club a copy of "Shogi for Beginners" by John Fairbairn if your club reaches 15 members. Unfortunately, at the moment, this offer is only for American clubs.
Quote: mohsart wrote: You may want to check out this page. Also here is a place to play on the net (also Xiangqi and Janggi), turn based, Swedish site. /Mats
In general these days, I wouldn't recommend Shogi.Net to beginners, since it's a very old and hard-to-navigate site. I may be a little biased, but I think it would be better to refer new shogi players to The 81-Square Universe instead.
Quote: Hi ! I'm learning shogi too (thought very, very part-time). I'm finding it very hard to get material for it and playing online is extremely frustrating because I always get crushed in games. The only positive point I get is that a colleague of mine plays withme about once a week and he's as bad as I am ! We've only had 2-3 games up to now, though, and we're pretty much evenly matched. I play on brainking.com. I played a few games on playok.com but there doesn't seem to attract many new players so players come in, crush me and leave. Let's just say I miss the KGS Teaching Ladder.  I even have a shogi blog but there isn't much in it since I never got hooked on the game as I thought I would for the reasons mentioned before. Anyway, if you play on brainking, send me a game invite ! Or tell me when you're available on playok.
Hi Solar Bear! Nice to run into you here, too.
I'm sorry to hear you haven't gotten as hooked on the game as you would have liked. If you want, I can give you one-on-one lessons in the future, including reviewing all of your games like I did with the one game I commented on in your blog.
Quote: - Later, learn some shogi proverbs, like "tokin is worthing 3 generals"
I think you've mixed up two proverbs. "A tokin is worth 1,000 golds" and "A horse's defense is worth three generals." Here's a list of shogi proverbs: http://wiki.81squareuniverse.com/index. ... i_Proverbs
Quote: I will explain one thing from the behalf of all the Go players in the world - Shogi sucks! Go rules!
I don't think either should be compared to the other, since they're both very different games. I love both games, although I'm a bit more serious about shogi than igo.
Quote: (BTW, as far as taking a break once in a while from go, I believe even Honinbo Shusai play shogi for fun!)
Permament Meijin and 3-Crowns Yoshiharu Habu is an avid player of igo and chess as well.
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