Tools · 棋譜ビューア
Read any shogi record.
Paste a game in KIF, KI2, CSA or USI and step through it on the board, with the comments the record carries. Nothing is uploaded; the record is read in your browser by the same rules engine the app plays with.
The formats
- KIF (.kif, .kifu) is the standard Japanese text format: one move per line, destination and piece, the origin in brackets, times, and comments starting with an asterisk. Every Japanese program reads and writes it, and so does the app’s export.
- KI2 is KIF without the origins, written the way a newspaper column writes moves: ▲７六歩 △３四歩 in running text, with 右/左/上/引 to disambiguate.
- CSA is the format of computer shogi: +7776FU for a move, with the piece named in letters. Engine tournaments and some servers use it.
- USI is the position string engines exchange:
position startpos moves 7g7f 3c3d …. The app stores its games this way.
Reading a record
The first player, ▲ or black, is at the bottom of the board and moves up it. The move list shows each move in Western notation (piece, dash or × for a capture, destination, + for a promotion, * for a drop); the record’s own text, in its own notation, is in the file you pasted. Click any move to jump to it; the arrow keys step; Home and End go to either end. The current position’s SFEN is printed under the board so you can carry it to the mate finder or anywhere else.
Records from the app: every finished game exports as a KIF from the game’s review screen, and pastes straight in here.
Review your own games with words.
The app keeps every game and marks the moment it turned, with a plain sentence about what was better. Export any of them as KIF and read it here.