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Jogue Shogi

Website

A free online platform for learning and playing shogi (Japanese chess) in Portuguese: live games against people or the computer, a nine-lesson course, daily tsume problems and a community-written wiki of pieces, castles and openings.

The Jogue Shogi home page with a live game, the wiki sections and the navigation menu

About

Jogue Shogi is a free platform for playing and learning shogi, the Japanese chess, entirely in Portuguese. Shogi is played on a 9x9 board with twenty pieces on each side, and what sets it apart is the drop: every captured piece changes sides and can come back to the board. Everything runs in the browser, with nothing to install.

Play

  • Live games: join an open seat, invite a friend by link, or watch games as they happen.
  • A computer opponent with five difficulty levels.
  • Kyu and dan grading, rankings, and handicap games across nine levels.

Learn

The Jogue Shogi rules course, with a path for beginners and one for chess players
  • A nine-lesson course on the rules with two paths: one for complete beginners and a shorter one for people who already play chess.
  • A daily tsume (mating problem), the same for everyone.
  • An opening trainer that picks an opening from the wiki and has you play its recommended line move by move.
  • A community-written wiki of pieces, castles, openings and shogi culture, with submissions and a review queue.

Community

  • Clubs, an activity feed and a forum with boards for shogi, chess and go, anime, manga and visual novels, technology and science, and more.
  • Permanent achievement badges, and kakera, a currency earned from missions, wins, achievements and tsume streaks, spent on profile frames in the shop.

Jogue Shogi runs on Node.js and Express.