2018: Kana Satomi is the Women's Meijin and holds 6 titles.

From Tokyo university! ... Well, that might explain why your English is that fluent Just want to say, thank you very much for your videos

Hi, I'm really glad that you joined youtube to give me comments. Enjoy my future videos, too.

Thanks for giving me your comments, Ztryn-san. All right, I'll try to make lessons on a lot of different strategies.

I was lucky enough to be able to play against Segawa Shouji when I was at the University of Tokyo in Kashiwa from UK in 2011! He was a very nice man and came to the open campus event. My lab colleagues taught me how to play shogi over a couple of nights while we drank sake :D I managed to defeat him once, but he only had gold and silver generals - he beat me the other time with the same handicap :-( He signed my notebook for me and it's one of my most prized souvenirs from my time in Japan :D

Hi, thanks for your comment. I think I'm gonna try one video for 'Famous Games' in the near future, even before finishing this series of 'How to play Shogi'. I'll make lessons on 4th-file rook, too.

hmmm, I see lots of viewers want to learn about Ishida Quick Attack. It's a very exciting opening strategy. You have to play very carefully when you play it, because a lot of traps are in that kind of quick attacks. Oh, you know Kato Momoko? You know about shogi very well, then.

Hey I'm the guy who asked if it was ok to make a DVD from your wonderful "Shogi Lessons". Just wanted to let you know that I made one, with Lessons 1 to 24 on it. It's 3 hours and 40 minutes long! Well done. Keep up the good work!

Thanks for you good suggestions. I agree that lots of shogi beginner want to know how to behave against opening traps or quick attacks. I'll make lessons on those. And, shogi proverbs! That's a good idea. Actually, that came up to my mind before once, but I've been totally forgetting that.

Hmmm, that sounds interesting. I think I'll consider that.

I believe I showed you the process of building a Silver Crown in that video. That's how we make it.

Hi, youtube has an option of playing the video with better audio&visual quality. Just add "&fmt=18" to the end of the address for each video. I'd like to present your Shogiprogram in lesson#27. Would that be all right?

Idea: diff between king and jeweled general. I know, in Japan, it's a very BIG (!!!) difference, western people can't understand. Also at Shogi-List were discussion about it, but they didn't declared it. "usually" the better player use the king general. What, if the stronger player starts a game against a weaker player? Or can't this happen? I believe, Furigoma is made AFTER setup the game. Are the Kings changed after Furigoma (if needed)? I believe there are much more questions about this!

It's just that the superior (i.e. stronger, elder, etc.) player uses the King general, no matter who plays first. I mean, King general can be used either by black or white. By the way, what's "Shogi-List"?

I was wondering if there was another way to become a professional. It seems to me that somebody could become good at shogi later in life (although rare!), and can beat professionals, but would still be stuck in the amateur league.

is hidetachi alive?

I must say --Your English is very good.

Once again another excellent video in this series! I would love to see a lesson on the Ishida Quick attack. I've tried this attack a few times, but it seems whenever I try it, it doesn't work. However, I've had a few people use it against me, and they seem to get it too work (somehow :). Also anything on some child prodigies like Kato Momoko, would be interesting... Keep up the good work!!!!!!!

Hidetchi, out of interest what did you study at the University of Tokyo? I have just graduated in England but plan to do further study starting from this year. Apparently the university I will be attending has a small but devoted shogi club. I look forwards to joining them!

Kana Satomi is only 16 years old o.O, that's my age! she must have started shogi years earlier. Cool ranking system ^^. I wonder if I am good enough to be in amateur 10th-9th dan :P.

I wanna to learn every exist strategy in shogi :)))

hi liked your video as always:) and can't wait to watch the next series(I am really happy that you won't stop with the basics). an idea for a future lesson: one of your games with comments about what did you think when you played that move and things like that... We could learn a lot of a 5 dan player's game do you play on playok(kurnik) or shogidojo? if yes what is your username there?

Hi, perhaps I'm a bit late but concerning your Series 3 video, it'd be great if you could make one with 4th file rook. I'm particularly interested in the case when the rook is attacking with a High Mino castle, how to defend the zone between the lance and the castle? I could kinda do that with some kind of tower with (going upward in file 8) knight-silver-pawn-bishop, but it's kinda hard to keep and weak against an enemy bishop (fork with the lowest gold especially, and attacks on the silver)

I was amateur 1 dan on 81 Dojo, but I got demoted. My actual ability is somewhere around 4 kyu.

@iLuvHinata360 This video was made in December 2008, so she's older now. She'll be 18 in a few days.

My games with comments? That's an interesting idea, but I'll make videos of famous professional games with annotations, so that will be much better than my games... I've never played on playok, but I often play on shogidojo24. My username is the same as on youtube.

Youre incredible !!did you know? I think youre the best, hey can i join the amateur, even if i am a non japanese person?

Is Tokyo U as hard as they say?

Hidetchi, how, in the Professional-grade rankings, can you be promoted, e.g, from 5th to 6th, etc? …..and you got Moriuchi and Watanabe Senseis' signatures!!! WOW!!!

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I wonder if he'll ever see any new comments

@Calliban Oh, that's very easy (to get an approximate value). Simple play many games against japanese. How you can do it, maybe you ask? Of course in internet, for example at shogidojo24 @HIDETCHI Very much thanks for your Shogi-Series and I hope we will see more and more and more. Maybe soon with better video&audio quality ;-) And also much thanks for your voice for my Shogiprogram BCMSHogi. Very much thanks.

@HIDETCHI Thanks for the "&fmt=18" hint. I'm not familiar with youtube and also didn't recognized the "watch in high quality" link in your earlier videos before. Of course you can present my Shogiprogram. This makes me really happy. Still thinking about it, I assume it could be a funny video: hearing your voice twice, one directly from you and one from my program. ;-)))

m, true but, she was there with only 16, that was my point :P. not the age she has now-a-days XP. I should have said: "she WAS 16 years old". early age for a woman professional. I remember you from playOK, you're Hidan888's friend, i'm rikkuhyuuga, remeber?

I'm afraid I have no idea how you can tell your level outside of Japan. What I can do is only to show you this website. h t t p://w w w.shogitown.c o m/school/judge/judgetop.html However, it's written in Japanese. I guess it's not helpful to you... After you solved all 50 problems there and counted the points, it will tell you your level.