Stefany93 wrote:I will explain one thing from the behalf of all the Go players in the world - Shogi sucks! Go rules!
Shogi is a different animal than Go. While I've only played only a handful of games, the type of thinking for Shogi is very, very similar to the thinking process that you have to go through for Western Chess and Go. I'm terrible at Shogi, since I seem to lack the knowledge of how pieces cooperate.
Shogi would be fun if you have someone to learn with. It's not a hard game to learn, and I think if you actually branched out from Go you'd actually get better faster. Also, if you actually understood Shogi and it's subtleties, you wouldn't be so negative toward it.
hirohiigo wrote: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.
I'll second that. If you're biased then I am too.
When I was looking for Shogi stuff a while back, I stumbled upon 81-square universe which was more or less in it's infancy (only a handful of posts). It's a great resource as the number of Shogi things in English are significantly less than we English speakers would hope.
hirohiigo wrote: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.
Welcome to L19 on behalf of the Go community, and I hope that you'll improve in both Go and Shogi. If you have any questions about Go, the stronger players are very helpful, and like to help weaklings like me. So, I guess the point I'm trying make is it never hurts to ask.
