Comprehensive Shogi Guide in English: How to play Japanese

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Comprehensive Shogi Guide in English: How to play Japanese Chess

Comprehensive Shogi Guide in English is designed to teach how to play Japanese chess to non-Japanese speakers.
This book is all you need to start playing shogi right away!

Contents cover basics in details including how to move pieces as well as how to recognize one piece from another, basic strategies and tactics. It is a newly written book, so it mentions a lot of free services available online. This is the most comprehensive and practical shogi guide book ever existed.

Contents are as follows:

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Chapter 1: What exactly is Shogi?

Chapter 2: O Mighty Shogi Pieces

- About Pieces and how they move

Chapter 3: Initial Setup

Chapter 4: The Rules of Shogi

- Rule Number 1: The King Must Die
- Unique Rules of Shogi
- How to capture pieces and how to use capture pieces
- Wondrous System of Promotion
- Movement of Promoted Pieces
- Gold Option Group
- Plus King Option Group
- About the board

Chapter 5: Basic Strategies

Section 1: Basic Strategies
Section 2: Middle Rook Strategy
Section 3: Yagura Castle
Section 4: Hibernating Bear Method

Chapter 6: Basic Tactics

Tactic #1: Doulble Threats
Tactic #2: Tactics used for checkmate
- Tsume Shogi Problems (Checkmate Puzzles)

Chapter 7: Let's Play Games

Game 1: Welcome to Hamster Stage
Game 2: Shogi Communities in English
Game 3: Other Useful Resources

Chapter 8: Postscript by the author

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Country	USA
Author	Miles Yebisu
Binding	Kindle Edition
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	Laboratory Publishing
Manufacturer	Laboratory Publishing
PublicationDate	2016-12-25
Publisher	Laboratory Publishing
ReleaseDate	2016-12-25
Studio	Laboratory Publishing

Comprehensive Shogi Guide in English: How to play Japanese Chess

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