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Shogi in 20 Minutes: Learn Japanese Chess and Win Your First Game Tonight
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 11 2026
Pages: 108
Weight: 0.34
Height: 0.22 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Learn shogi tonight even if the Japanese pieces have always looked intimidating.
Shogi in 20 Minutes is a fast, visual introduction to Japanese chess designed to take you from complete beginner to playing a real game with confidence.
If you already know chess, you'll quickly see what carries over-and what changes completely. If you've never played chess at all, you're covered too: every rule is explained from zero.
Inside, you'll learn:
- How to read the 9×9 shogi board and recognize all eight pieces
- How every piece moves, captures, and promotes
- The famous drop rule that makes shogi unlike Western chess
- How to protect your King before launching an attack
- The beginner mistakes and traps that end games early
- Five practical checkmate patterns
- How to play through a complete game move by move
- Shogi notation, terminology, etiquette, history, and a one-page cheat sheet
The book is deliberately structured to move from piece recognition and legal moves into promotion, drops, king safety, traps, mating patterns, and finally a complete sample game.
Whether you discovered shogi through chess, Japan, anime, board games, or simple curiosity, you don't need a giant reference manual to get started.
Learn the pieces. Understand the rules. Play your first game tonight.
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