A 80 Annotated Games Collection celebrating 400 years of shogi with a Foreword by Yoshiharu Habu.
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First 7 Crowns professional title holder Habu says "If you read this book and find a new appeal of shogi, or it helps your improvement, this would give me great pleasure as an author." By studying Habu's Words the amateur can step up from one level of play to the next.
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The first complete guide to Shogi in english for beginner and dan players.
First Seven Crowns title holder Yoshiharu Habu says:
"On reading 'The Art of Shogi' I was very surprised and pleased with its content of shogi history, teaching the rules, explanation of a lot of tactics, and introduction to openings and professional systems which is very wide and deep. I think beginners will understand clearly and quickly. I hope many people will play shogi outside Japan, and I sincerely recommend this book."
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The beginner's guide to western chess, shogi, shiang chi and go.
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The "Guide des échecs insolites et exotiques" is written in French. There were no French book on this topic in bookshops yet. The "Guide des échecs insolites et exotiques" always gives the full set of rules along with attractive and useful illustrations. Every CV is illustrated with board with the starting set-up. You will find the ancestors (Chaturanga, Shatranj...), the medievals (Timur, Courier, Gala, Byzantine, Rithmomachia...), the Asians (Xiang-Qi, Changgi, Shogi, Sittuyin, Makruk,...), their variants (Qiguo-Qi, Chu Shogi, Tai Shogi, Congo...), many others (Grand Chess, Four Handed, Hex Chess, Space Chess, Football Chess, Jetan, Klin Zha, Jungle Game...).
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The "Univers des Echecs", The Chess Universe, is an invitation to cross the centuries and the continents for a discovering trip about the King of the Games. This book is written in French and aims at giving an overview of the fantastic world of Chess. This history, born in the dust of the Silk Road about fifteen centuries ago, is told here from the famous wheat seeds of the Rajah to the very last performance of our modern champions. It will not be forgotten to get back in Asia, where everything began, to see what the cousins have become : the very popular Chinese Xiangqi, the intriguing Japanese Shogi and also the variations from all over the world, from India to Mongolia, from Europe to Madagascar. The reader will not close this book without being initiated, for each variety, to the rules and the main strategical and tactical principles. A long list of web sites completes the reading of this new book.
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