Shogi Primer: Japanese chess guide for English speakers

I am very glad I bought this little masterpiece.Seigo Sato has written a very good book for those who are completely new to Shogi and want to learn it from the very scratch.The book starts (after intro chapter) with "How to play Shogi" and first takes a look at the board an pieces.Then he goes through every piece, how they move and what they will promote to when they reach your oponents first three rows. And also how they can move after they have been promoted.He continues with the rules like "when pieces collide", dropping pieces that has been promoted, board notation, checking the King and how to meet a check. Mate with different pieces, draw rules, how the game ends.You can also find good internet resources in the book where you can practice how to move the pieces with different move excercises and also play Shogi.He also writes about fundamental strategy , which is important to get right from the very beginning and how to become stronger in Shogi :- Value of pieces- Strategy- TacticsThe book ends with some Shogi puzzles to solve, checkmate excercises and excercises like "By using the pawn and gold (Goldgeneral), capture the King in 3 moves".This book, written by Seigo Sato an amertour 3-dan Shogiplayer is the perfect place to start learning this interesting, Japanese chess like, game called Shogi.I highly recommend it to anyone who is new to Shogi.It will give you a sound and stable platform for furher improvement.Its cheap and its good.Dont hesitate to buy it if you are new to Shogi.

I’ve been playing shogi on and off for many years but never took it seriously. Just recently got back after seeing many modern progressions with the games access (many resources and online games like lishogi). This is great to get my feet wet again and better understanding of the game. This is the first of the series I finished and can’t wait to dive into the others.