New bunch of magnetic shogi arrived

Ok, is me back to my blog again finally. After such a long time I never update my blog, I feel that I need to burn up my shogi passion again.

This time, I import about 25 sets of magnetic shogi from China. Try to sold all of this to all my fellow desciples in my university. At the same time I am trying to sell all of it to all Malaysia shogi lover and whoever is interest in it.

All shogi here only sell to Malaysian!!!

Feel free to email me that if you want to buy the shogi. I will sell it for RM28, it includes the pawn keychain and a shogi guideline that made by me in english version, but postage fees is not included, you need to paid the postage fees yourself. Tell me in the email what kind of postage you would like me to send. You will able to face-to-face buy the shogi if you are around the Bandar Sunway area, and also the Mahkota Parade, Ayer Keroh in Melaka.

You can inform me whether you want a chinese version guideline, if you need, I will try my best to translate it to chinese version.

For my review, the magnetic board is nice, the design and the pieces is ok, the magnetic is not that strong,,, so don turn your shogi board to 90 degrees or upside down. It is just make sure that your piece will not run away even you move your board from table to another table.

The keychain is an adorable tiny cute thing that you can hang in on your bag, wall, pendrive, house key or anywhere else that you like to.

Thanks for all your support XD

3 April MMU Dragon King Shogi Match Closed Summer 2010~~~!!!

Chess Clock

Ong You Tid(panda)

Kaz vs Ryou Takehito

match venue

laptop 1

laptop 2

laptop 3

laptop 4

Jason operate on laptop 5

laptop 6 (my laptop ^_^)

Lunch time, part of the committees and players

trophy and other participants gift

Gift for all the participants

Dragon King Trophy~ XD

A scene of one of the match

Another scene of one of the match

Ryou Takehito~!!!(The arbiter)

The 4 envelopes is the cash money for the top 4.

Final round, The checkmate move to be a Dragon King!!!

The final scene that determine the Dragon King

After the match, Ryou Takehito play with 3 persons in a row. He defeat all of them

One of the match that I manually record with my own designed kifu form

The result list, totally 10 players.

10th Conan

9th Kjying (Volunteer)

8th Billy

7th Jason

6th Kaz (Volunteer)

5th Panda

4th Apple

3rd Cherry

2th Fish

1st Jimmy

All the participants and committees
Ryou Takehito vs Fish & Billy & Cherry
Ryou have a speech(left), Me asking him some question(right)

Due to the stupid photographer snailing with his camera and photo progress, make me unable to update the blog after the shogi match, so far till today I still unable to get the good quality photo from him, since everything is late, I will just update the blog first and attach some bad resolution picture of the matches.

Finally is the day of the shogi match 3 April, 8am in the morning go to the venue for preparation. Ryou Takehito had been invited by me to be the arbiter of this shogi match event. There are only 8 peoples appear in the first round, so I setup the total matches
for 3 rounds. 6 laptops are used for this event for recording the kifu of the matches. I and a few committee as the recorder of the kifu. At first round, we are using the BCMshogi for recording the kifu. After the first round finish, we found that the software can only save half of the kifu we recorded, not sure whether it is a bug or error. Then, Ryou Takehito download another software for recording the kifu, that is shogidokoro. However not all the kifu is recorded, at least the final round of the dragon king match is recorded.

The overall, there are 13 games.
5 games end with illegal move.
- 2 2 pawns drop.
- 1 Eat own pawn with Knight.
- 1 Promoted Knight move back diagonally
- 1 Rook move like Bishop.
7 games record available.
1 game record lost.
1 manually game record.

The Result of the shogi match.

Rank 1 - Jimmy
Rank 2 - Fish
Rank 3 - Cherry
Rank 4 - Apple
Rank 5 - Panda
Rank 6 - Kaz
Rank 7 - Jason
Rank 8 - Billy
Rank 9 - Kjying
Rank 10 - Conan

After the event finish, Ryou Takehito was asked to play with 3 peoples in a row. The players are Billy, Cherry and Fish. Billy was playing with 4 pieces handicap that is rook, bishop and 2 lances from Ryou. However all of them lose to Ryou at the end, they learn a lot from Ryou.

I feel so proud of myself for holding this event as this is the first inner university shogi event in whole Malaysia. I feel honor that Ryou Takehito willing to sacrifice his free time to attending my event as arbiter. And I feel so happy that all my chess club friends come to support my event.

Finally good pictures is upload on 25 April

The weiqi has arrived~!

The weiqi finally arrived to my house few days ago, anyway today I will post 2 thread on my blog. One is the weiqi, and one is the Dragon King match that launched on 3 April

The books and prize for Dragon King shogi match has arrived~!!!

A plastics bag that given by the seller in China

A mouse pad with Kenji Kobayashi's signature

4 books i bought, from left, shogi magazine in Japan, little tsume book,
shogi book publish in China, and weiqi(Igo) book with unique mate problem

The prizes for all the participants of MMU Dragon King shogi match closed

Detail on one of the pieces, pawn

Finally the stuff I ordered from China arrive at my house. Besides, I still got two more carriage of stuff will be arrive next week. That content 3 sets of Igo. Another one content 10 sets of shogi and some other shogi books. The mouse pad display in the China Taobao website for a long time, looks like no one to buy it. So I just bought it anyway since I bought a lot of shogi stuff from the seller. The seller sells a lot of shogi stuff. I always buy stuff from him.

Shogi Kifu Form made~!!!

A view of the whole kifu form

A detail view on the upper kifu form

A picture from the internet that I make it as my sample

I spent one night time to design the kifu form, use the microsoft excel to design it. It come out as good as I like it. I simplified some of the detail, so it won't look so complicated to others. I will use it in the shogi event I directed on 3 April.

Anyone if interest can e-mail me to request for the microsoft excel file of this form.

^_^