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Here are just a few pointers:
- WINDOWS programs for playing against a computer:
For starters, there's Booze (http://drunksoft.com/booze/). Nice look, feel and taste! Very helpful web page too.
If you want something a bit stronger, try the Spear engine (direct download link, http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SHOGI/SPEAR/SpearShogidokoro2008.zip) on the Shogidokoro interface (download, http://www.geocities.jp/shogidokoro/download/Shogidokoro.zip). This combination will let you play a the Spear engine (among others), connect to online servers, or watch two engines play each other, etc. Requires NET framework 2.0 or higher. Installation instructions here: http://gamelab.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/SHOGI/SPEAR/spearmain.html
There’s also ShogiVariants (http://trout.customer.netspace.net.au/index.html). This remarkable little portable program lets you play a whole bunch of Shogi variants in addition to the main game. Even though development stopped in the late 1990s, ShogiVariants seems to work fine on my Vista system.
- To play ONLINE:
Against computers:
http://www.genedavissoftware.com/shogi/index.html (Java platform)
http://www.pathguy.com/chess/Shogi.htm
Against other humans:
http://www.playok.com/en/shogi/ (free registration required)
- For rules of the game and other INTRODUCTORY material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi
http://www.shogi.net/rjhare/
http://www26.brinkster.com/sweshogi/vadshogi_e.htm
http://www.crockford.com/chess/shogi.html
- A good Shogi link collection:
http://www.shogi.net/shogi-links.html
Here's one:
http://hozo.hp.infoseek.co.jp/shogi/index.html
It's in japanese but here's a quick translation:
http://shogi-shack.net/playhamshogi.aspx
I forgot to mention that it uses flash, doesn't require registration, free to play, has handicaps, quick tutorials, basic tactics, exercises, show movement range and great for beginners.
P.S - Your opponent is a hamster...
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