All Shogi Tesuji: Every Technique on One Page

Tesuji	What it does	Page
The hanging pawn 垂れ歩 tarefu	A pawn dropped one square short of the promotion zone, so that next move it steps in and becomes a tokin.	Pawn tesuji
The joining pawn 継ぎ歩 tsugifu	After your pawn is pushed and taken on a file, you drop another pawn one square behind, offering it to the pawn that captured.	Pawn tesuji
The pawn at the focal point 焦点の歩 shōten no fu	A pawn dropped on the square where two enemy pieces’ lines cross, so that whichever one takes it leaves the other line broken.	Pawn tesuji
The tapping pawn 叩きの歩 tataki no fu	A pawn dropped directly in front of an enemy piece, forcing it to take, move, or be captured.	Pawn tesuji
The pawn under the gold 金底の歩 kinsoko no fu	A defensive drop: a pawn on your back rank directly behind a gold on the rank above.	Pawn tesuji
The throwaway push 突き捨て tsukisute	Pushing a pawn into contact knowing it will be taken, and not recapturing at once.	Pawn tesuji
The confronting pawn 合わせの歩 awase no fu	A pawn dropped directly in front of an enemy pawn, offering the exchange.	Pawn tesuji
The splitting silver 割り打ちの銀 wariuchi no gin	A silver dropped diagonally behind two enemy pieces that stand on a rank with one empty square between them, attacking both.	Silver and gold tesuji
The silver at the belly 腹銀 hara-gin	A silver dropped on the square beside the king, protected from behind.	Silver and gold tesuji
The gold on the head 頭金 atama-kin	A gold dropped on the square directly in front of the king, with a piece behind it so the king cannot take.	Silver and gold tesuji
The sending sacrifice 送りの手筋 okuri no tesuji	A gold or silver dropped next to the king as a sacrifice, so that the capture moves the king onto the square where your mate works.	Silver and gold tesuji
The plover silver 銀は千鳥に使え gin wa chidori ni tsukae	Using a silver on its diagonals, forward and back, zigzagging like a plover running on the beach, rather than straight ahead.	Silver and gold tesuji
Lure the gold diagonally 金は斜めに誘え kin wa naname ni sasoe	A technique against a defending gold: attack it so that its natural capture or retreat is a diagonal step forward, which is the direction it cannot come back from.	Silver and gold tesuji
The loincloth knight ふんどしの桂 fundoshi no kei	A knight dropped so that its two forward squares hold two enemy pieces: a fork.	Knight and lance tesuji
The held-back knight 控えの桂 hikae no kei	A knight dropped one rank short of where it wants to strike, out of reach, so that it threatens to jump next move.	Knight and lance tesuji
The skewer 田楽刺し dengaku-zashi	A lance dropped on a file with two enemy pieces on it, attacking the nearer one and, through it, the farther one.	Knight and lance tesuji
The lance from the back rank 香は下段から kyō wa gedan kara	Dropping the lance as far back as possible on the file it attacks.	Knight and lance tesuji
The knight that jumps too high 桂の高跳び歩の餌食 kei no takatobi fu no ejiki	The mistake, given its own proverb: a knight that jumps into the enemy camp with no support and is attacked by a pawn.	Knight and lance tesuji
The cross rook 十字飛車 jūji-bisha	A rook dropped or moved to a square from which it attacks one piece along the rank and another along the file.	Rook and bishop tesuji
Check and rook 王手飛車 ōte-bisha	A move that gives check and attacks the enemy rook at the same time, most often a bishop move or drop that hits both along its two diagonals.	Rook and bishop tesuji
The dragon at one remove 一間龍 ikken-ryū	The dragon placed two squares from the king in a straight line, with one empty square between them.	Rook and bishop tesuji
The far-seeing bishop 遠見の角 tōmi no kaku	A bishop dropped in your own camp or the far corner of the board, on a long diagonal that ends in the enemy king’s castle.	Rook and bishop tesuji
Exchanging the rook’s pawn 飛車先の歩交換 hishasaki no fu kōkan	Pushing the pawn in front of your rook until it exchanges with the enemy pawn, then recapturing with the rook and retreating.	Rook and bishop tesuji
The horse in defence 馬の守り uma no mamori	Bringing the promoted bishop back beside your own king rather than keeping it in the attack.	Rook and bishop tesuji

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