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How did you discover shogi?

#1

I was reading something about the history of chess and the article mentioned two games of the same family (shogi and xiangqi). How did you find information about this game?

#3

I have read a news that Karolina Styczyńska has become first foreign pro shogi player.
Got intrigued and had to find out more about it.

#5

I was interested in learning about xiangqi as a kid. There was a book about it in the bookstore, and near it was a book about shogi. I took a look, but the game did not interest me at the time (pieces seemed really weak). When I became more interested in chess variants, I saw it again and knew what it was, but again never really got interested. I even played a few games on Microsoft's board game software (it's ancient... like around 2000), and gave up because I couldn't really understand the game. Not until recently (last few years) I started to seriously take a look, and Hidetchi's videos really drew me into the game.

#6

I had a Japanese neighbour in University who played one or two games with me. I sadly never played it again for 10 years until a member of my karate club learned I was good at chess and suggested I come to his shogi club.

#7

Once I was posting in lichess forum as I usually do. Suddenly, I've noticed a blog post from NoJoke it says "Our Favourite Open source Sites #2" lichess.org/blog/X8fGPxUAAHY74FSO/our-favorite-open-source-sites-2
I had read the whole article, I knew all of the sites except one, that's Pychess.org, So got curious and Opened it, and saw there were millions of variants, Got really excited to try them all!
After this I started liking Mini Shogi,
That's how it began! :D

#8

I was following the efforts of Deepmind in 2016 and saw that they had created an AI for the game of Go. After discovering Go, I hit upon shogi, and found it more attractive.

I have had a passive interest since then. It was only in 2020 though that I started playing a lot of online chess, and especially crazyhouse. Now, alongside learning crazyhouse opening theory, I also explore the shogi systems and castles.

#9

Was watching SkyToads stream when he was working on multi-variant sf and there he mentioned once lishogi.org. I decided to check it out and here I am now as a Bot!

#10

I'm a relatively strong chess player (2155 rapid on Lichess) and I got interested in shogi just for variety. So far I've enjoyed playing although I wish there were better resources in English.

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