Shôgi teaching at chugakkô

Shogi koma from ISPS

Since the Ivory Coast Shôgi federation has been created, ISPS with sir Terao Manabu has never stopped helping it through material giving.

At the begining of our activities, it sent to Shogi ivoire, 10 sets of Shôgi pieces, with the ten that New York Shôgi federation give to us in January.

Since this last 2 months, ISPS agreed again to give to us some 40 shogi pieces sets ('ten sets by month). We now received 20 out of 40.

So this gift, is a real support for shogi spreading here, as far as most of shogi players in Ivory Coast are students, and haven't often means to buy pieces from Japan.

Also these pieces are very important, because, we were planning to set up the "gakkou-sen", a first shogi tournament for the best secondary schools of the country.The students of these schools are really fond of reflexion games, and also competition among them.So it is a really best way of promoting shogi, since they will train very often, to be the best one.So I had yesterday a meeting with the headmaster of Lycee classique d'Abidjan, and next days we will meet the Lycee Sainte Marie de cocody hea.After this, another 5 secondary great schools will have shogi clubs and we will begin teaching them some josekis we learnt and also tesujis.

I really thank ISPS for his full support for us and also all shogi federations and people who are really working for Shôgi spreading in Africa and in the whole world.

Shôgi forever

Report of the first euro-ivoire tournament

Sorry for the bad quality of pictures, they have been taken by a phone.

There are the results of the 1st Euro-Ivoirian Web Tournement, which was held the 4-5 September 2010 on Playok : Classement by point : 1re : Oneye 9 points 2e : Mellart 7 points 3e : Alex94s 5 points 4e ex-aquo : bakashogi / nivlinch / harmandoyass 4 points. Classement by game played with people far away (> 5000 km) 1er : duhammel 9 parties 2e ex-aquo : drikwer / legaullois / kageman68 6 parties 5e ex-aquo : mellart / nanachou / oneye / ericherve / harmandoyass 5 parties. This tournement had been the occasion for ivoirian player, who can not easily come to european, asian or american tournement for many reasons, to play with shogi player form different country (France, Italie, Polon, St Barth). In the same way, western player have discover new player and create new relationship with passionate people. Even if there was some trouble (organisation, time fusel, communication, sickness of some players), it had been a great moment. Ivoirian player can have played with players of their strenght and even beat some of them. One of the aim of this tournement was to settle a layer of stranght between european and african people. This goal has been achieved and globally, their are above 15 kyu FESA. This level must be see with all the condition : since the creation of the first club, 1 year ago, their has been no master to teach them theory, and they learn only by playing together and reading some stuff on the web. Finally, this tournement has attracted many people (above 25 players on the sapporo room during the tournement) and some of them very famous : oneye (who had participated), linkuei, racine (81-ou) and takodori, the well known japanese strong amateur who spread the shogi all around the western world. Hopefully, this tournement will bring more courage to their members and recognition from the international scene.

Report made by Benjamin Briffaud of Shôgi France

58e OUZA title-match

I watched today my first in live Shôgi game which faced Yoshiharu Habu to Takeshi.Unfortunately, due to the bad quality of connexion in the cyber i'm used to, I have not been able to begin the game, but I watched the last moves. After the last move of Yoshiharu, I was surprised (smile) it was written on my screen that black won...So I asked to DemonikOu on 81dojo how it comes that the game finished since Takeshi could still drop a piece to protect his king, but he said to me that in Professional games, sometimes when a player knows he will certainly be mate, he give up before the mate.So I understood that surely Habu would have won the game.I'm so excited to have watched for the first time a so important game in live. Thanks to sir Manabu Terao who published the link on his facebook.Congratulations to the two players and Shôgi banzai.