Shogi Castle: Japanese Chess

Shogi is Japanese chess: capture a piece and it joins YOUR army. Shogi Castle teaches it from the first move and gives you somewhere to use it every day, on a phone or a tablet. LEARN FROM ZERO Ten short lessons take you from an empty board to your first castle. Every lesson is hands on: you move the pieces, and the app checks your move against the real rules. No jargon, no walls of text. CASTLES, OPENINGS AND TESUJI Walking your king into a castle is the first real skill in shogi, and the app is named after it. Fifty-seven castles, each built move by move. Ninety-one openings, most of them played out for both sides. Twenty-four tesuji, the standard tactical tricks, and ten named mates. TSUME AT YOUR LEVEL Tsume are checkmate puzzles, the way shogi players have trained for centuries. The library holds 1,561 problems, from mate in one to mate in eleven, each one machine-checked so that…