With more than four million followers across Twitch and YouTube, Hikaru Nakamura is, for many, the face of online chess.

In the Sumide district in northern Tokyo, 86-year-old Kiyoji Saito is playing Shogi (Japanese chess) with a group of other octogenarians. Like many elderly Japanese he really doesn't like using ...

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Kyoto shogi (京都将棋, kyōto shōgi, "Kyoto chess") is a modern variant of shogi (Japanese chess). It was invented by Tamiya Katsuya c. 1976. Kyoto shogi is played like standard shogi, but with a reduced ...

Japanese chess, is a two-player strategy board game native to Japan. As each Shogi piece has kanji characters, it is not easy especially for kids and non-Japanese speakers to learn how to play Shogi.

Boholano prospect Gerwin “Gladiator” Asilo earned the respect of the Japanese boxing fans and his opponent Tenshin Nasukawa ...

"Now I know." AlphaGo Zero's latest achievements do not rest on chess alone. The paper says it was also triumphant in the Japanese board game Shogi versus a leading artificial intelligence program ...