GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Anish Giri, Toshiyuki Moriuchi, WGM Almira Skripchenko


 Chess-playing Japanese Shogi champions

15.04.2012 

 The Japanese chess variant Shogi is the most popular board game in the country. In recent years some of its greatest contemporary champions have started taking up chess, and two intersting experiments were recently conducted: a top GM played a chess simul against two Shogi masters, and the top Shogi champion a three-board Shogi handicap against chess masters. Illustrated report with games.

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