Learn · 将棋を学ぶ
Everything on the site, in order.
Shogi is taught in a fixed order in Japan: the rules, the pieces, a castle, an opening, the techniques, the mates. The guides follow it. Every diagram is a real position, drawn from the same rules the app plays by.
Start here
Three pages and you can play.
How to play ルールThe rules in ten minutes: the board, a turn, capturing, drops, promotion, check and mate, how a game ends.The pieces 駒Every piece with its move drawn square by square, its Japanese name, and what it becomes.Shogi for chess playersWhat carries over, what does not, and which chess habits to drop.
The rules in depth
The parts of the rules that have their own pages, because they have their own questions.
Drops 持ち駒Captured pieces come back. The four limits: nifu, dead squares, uchifuzume, and check.Promotion 成りThe zone, when you may and when you must, and the six promoted faces.Reading moves 棋譜7g7f, ７六歩 and P-7f are one move. Coordinates, the three notations, and a KIF.Time controls 持ち時間What five minutes then thirty seconds a move means, and how to play with byoyomi.
Getting better
The order Japanese teaching uses: castle, opening, technique, mate.
Castles 囲いMino, Yagura and Anaguma: where the king goes before the fight, and how each is built.Every castle 囲い一覧Eight shapes side by side, from the Mino family to the Anaguma, with when to use each.Strategies 戦法The five openings beginners are given, with full move orders and plans.Every opening 戦法一覧Fourteen openings in one list, from the systems to the professional lines and the tricks.Tesuji 手筋Twenty-four techniques by piece: pawn, generals, knight and lance, rook and bishop.Mating patterns 詰みの形The seven shapes most checkmates take, each on a real problem.Proverbs 格言Twenty-three sayings players steer by, with positions.
Practice
One problem a day, the same for everyone.
Tools
The engine, in your browser.
Reference
The words and the numbers.
Then play.
The app has the lessons, a bot with twelve levels, the daily tsume with a ladder and a rating, and a review of every game.