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Addressing trolls coming into the shogi community

Hey everyone, Riko here. I don't usually take a heavy hand in moderating this place, and I don't like making actual moderation announcements. However, I've been observing a trend of people who come into the subreddit from outside the community, often presenting their new idea for an internationalized set. They come in, drop their idea, argue about it, and then never actually participate in anything else. I've had enough.

To be clear, there is nothing wrong with coming up and sharing your piece designs, and I encourage it. But I will no longer allow people to show up, give an AI-written essay about why it's the piece set's fault that we don't have more players, and then leave. This is a very small community, yet it's extremely common for people to show up, accuse us of gatekeeping, wag their finger, and not actually play the game.

Going forward, if I get the sense that your only purpose for posting in this subreddit is to troll, you will be banned.

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u/hirohiigo — 2 days ago
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81 Doji Account Activation Issue

Hey all. I have been getting into shogi lately and I want to play on 81 Dojo, as it seems to be the most popular platform to play, especially for longer games which Shogiwars does not allow. However, I have never received the instructions email that it is supposed to be sent to you after around 2 working days. I have already tried to sent them a reply about this issue to the initial registration email, as well as sent a separate email. But I still get no response.

Has anyone encountered this issue before and found a solution to it?

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u/Caragiale41 — 2 days ago
▲ 38 r/shogi

Reached 1-Dan on 81dojo!

After being hardstuck on 3 kyu fesa and 4-3 kyu 81dojo for 5 years finally broke the wall. Im really happy with this one, one of my bigest shogi achivements so far. GG!

u/armyof_cats — 3 days ago
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New player

Hey everyone, I picked up shogi about a week ago and have no strategy board game experience and I'm in a progress slump, I'm able to beat level four stockfish pretty easily but against level five YaneuraOu I am getting hard stuck, the best I'm about to do is make it a 100+ move game and it's getting pretty demoralizing. Is there a bot that is in the middle? Do I play handicap games against level four to improve? Any advice or help would be beneficial, thanks!

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u/Inevitable-Bend8237 — 3 days ago
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The free campaign for the color edition of "Shogi Primer" has started!

You can download it for free until August 17th. Although the link below is for the US Amazon store, it's also available on your local Amazon site!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0HDSZP546

Give it a read, and if you enjoy it, I'd love to hear your thoughts with a quick rating or review!

u/SeigoShogi — 7 days ago
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A reformative shogi design which is acceptable to japanese people

I've created this beautiful new Shogi piece design.

The main idea was pretty simple: make the pieces readable without having to know Kanji. This is probably going to upset the Kanji apologists, but hear me out. A common argument for keeping Kanji on Shogi pieces is that "you have to preserve the Kanji because Shogi is japanese and it's important to respect japanese culture", duh.

But this argument is completely bogus, kanji literally means "chinese characters". The characters used on Shogi pieces aren't japanese but chinese. So actually keeping kanji doesn't preserve japanese but chinese culture.Keep your facts straight!

My design tries to preserve the traditions that actually have something to do with the game itself.The pawns still have the traditional Shogi piece shapes. Each piece has a little black Shogi piece inside it, which also acts as a possession indicator. And there is actual japanese writing incorporated into the set, in constract to chinese character shogi sets.

Other reform sets fail in that regard, that you not only have to convince international audiences to try shogi, you also have to convince japanese people to give up chinese character sets for your design. You shouldn't need to memorizing half an alphabet before you touch your first piece. Once you know the symbols, you can immediately start playing.

So yes, the chinese characters are gone.

But the shogi isn't. 😄

u/juukenbisha — 7 days ago
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Geometrisation of Shogi Pieces

I've recently been studying shogi, and I've come up with a geometric design for it.

Design

Since shogi relies on orientation to distinguish between own and opponent pieces, the designs for both sides will be identical. As orientation is the only way to distinguish pieces, additional markings must be included if there are no directional indicators. During actual play, the traditional shogi piece shapes, which indicate orientation, will still be used.

  • Jeweled General (玉): Hexagram.
  • King General (王): Hexagram with a dot in the centre.
  • Rook (飛): Square.
  • Bishop (角): Square rotated by 45 degrees.
  • Gold General (金): Equilateral triangle with a dot in the centre.
  • Silver General (銀): Equilateral triangle.
  • Knight (桂): Inverted triangle without a base, resembling a ‘V’.
  • Lance (香): Pentagon.
  • Pawn (歩): Circle.

Promotable pieces are promoted in the same way: a red dot is added to the centre, and their colour changes from black to red.

Design Explanation

  • Jeweled and King: Representing the centre of power, with symmetry and solidity. The dot on the King General's piece symbolises authority.
  • Rook and Bishop: The square indicates how it moves
  • Gold: The Guardian of the Sovereign. The triangle symbolises stability, whilst the central point represents status.
  • Silver: Secondary Sovereign Guardian; its form derives from the Gold General; after promotion, it resembles the Gold General.
  • Knight: The inverted triangle indicates the way it moves.
  • Lance: The pentagon points forwards, indicating the way it moves.
  • Pawn: Represents the most basic role; the circle can also be interpreted as a shield.
u/Francucelo — 12 days ago
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I built a free Shogi puzzle site with a YaneuraOu opponent — feedback welcome

Hi! I built a free browser-based Shogi page and would love feedback from experienced players.

It has a daily tsume puzzle, a puzzle journey with progressively harder positions, and full games against YaneuraOu 7.62 + Suisho 5 NNUE. The engine runs locally in the browser.

The puzzles support drops, promotions, hints, streaks, and locally saved progress. No account or ads are required.

I’m especially interested in puzzle correctness — including alternate solutions — as well as board/hand orientation and AI move quality.

Puzzles:

https://theworldatplay.com/puzzles/shogi

Play against the AI:

https://theworldatplay.com/shogi

Critical feedback is very welcome!

u/Difficult-Writer6663 — 11 days ago