Professional shogi

Japanese chess shogi is one of the most popular logical board games in Japan. Many people play shogi regularly and there is shogi professional organisation in Japan.

The main professional shogi tournaments are: Meijin, Ryuo, Osho, Kio, Oi, Kisei, Oza. This tournaments also named as title ones. There are a lot of other professional competitions and women pro tournament.

This time shogi is not so popular abroad Japan. But it is obviously that number of adherents of this interesting game increase constantly. Only chinese chess xiangqi and european chess have more amateurs than shogi around the world.

Organization structure of shogi in Japan is also quite interesting. Solid sponsors, TV- and radio translations, massmedia's attention to shogi events are the good means to popularisation shogi in Japan.

If you don't know what is japanese chess we recommend to acquaint with shogi rules.

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21 June 2006   Kisei title match. Sato won the 2nd game    go to

21 June 2006   On the way to Class A    go to

20 June 2006   It was held the 2nd Paris Open   go to

18 June 2006   Meijin title match. Moriuchi keep the title    go to

15 June 2006   65th Meijin started    go to

15 June 2006   Women Osho title match. Chiba won the 5th game    go to

11 June 2006   Added 5 topics into section "Women tournaments"    go to

11 June 2006   Belarus Shogi Championship finished    go to

8 June 2006   Added topic "Titleholders" into section "Women tournaments"    go to

8 June 2006   Women Osho title match. The 4th game was finished    go to

8 June 2006   Kisei title match is started    go to

2 June 2006   Meijin title match. Tanigawa won the 5th game of the match    go to

30 May 2006   Women Osho title match. Nakai won the 3rd game   go to

25 May 2006   Added topic"The age of participants" into section "Meijin"    go to

25 May 2006   Added topics "Number of participants" and "Average age of participants" into section "Meijin"    go to

24 May 2006   Women Osho title match. Score is 1-1    go to

20 May 2006   Belarus Championship, final. Sergey Korchitskij - Andrei Lysenko    go to

19 May 2006   Meijin title match. Moriuchi - Tanigawa 3-1    go to

19 May 2006   Added topic "Professional's rating" into section "Players"    go to

18 May 2006   Added topic "Asahi" into section "Non-title tournaments"    go to

16 May 2006   It was started Women Osho title match    go to

16 May 2006   24th Asahi Open was finished    go to

16 May 2006   Added topic "List of professionals" into section "Players"    go to

14 May 2006   Belarus Championship, final. Sergey Korchitskij - Andrei Lysenko    go to

13 May 2006   Meijin title match. The 3rd game between Moriuchi and Tanigawa was finished   go to

7 May 2006   World computer championship. The beginner took the 1st place   go to

7 May 2006   News from Finland. A little girl beat 3rd dan player   go to

5 May 2006   It was played the 3rd game of Asahi final match   go to

3 May 2006   Top shogi players take part in chess tournaments during shogi vacations    go to

2 May 2006   Shogi professionals – best Japanese chess players    go to

2 May 2006   In topics "ELO list FESA" you can find data for all FESA-countries    go to

1 May 2006   Renewed topics "ELO list FESA". Data for 11 FESA-countries    go to

1 May 2006   The 16th World Computer Shogi Championship will be held in Japan   go to

30 April 2006   Belarus Championship. Sergey Korchitskij won the second game in semifinal match against Andrei Kasperovich    go to

29 April 2006   Added topics "ELO list FESA" and "Number of shogi players (FESA) " into section "Players"    go to

26 April 2006   Meijin title match. The 2nd game between Moriuchi and Tanigawa was finished   go to

26 April 2006   Added topic "Soft" into section "Links"    go to

20 April 2006   1st Shogi Championship of Byelorussian pedagogical university    go to

20 April 2006   Asahi-2006. Fujii-Habu 1-1    go to

18 April 2006   77th Kisei. It is known participants of challengers final    go to

18 April 2006   Renewed sections "Oza", "Kio" and "Oi"

18 April 2006   Updated section "Translator" with on-line translator PROMT    go to

15 April 2006   It is known the 1st participant of Belarus Championship's final   go to

13 April 2006   Moriuchi won the 1st game of Meijin title match against Tanigawa    go to

7 April 2006     Added topic "About professionals" into section "Links"    go to

6 April 2006     Added section "Links" with topic "Shogi forums"    go to