Side Pawn Picker is one of major openings of double static rook game, in which sente’s (black’s) rook takes gote’s (white’s) pawn on 34 from 24 after making a pawn exchange on the 2nd file. The opening tend to open a war in the early phase of the game, and both player usually don’t have […]

I would like to classify the major opening strategies for systematic understanding the typical Shogi patterns. In this article, you can look over the common openings of static rook games. Each opening has very unique feature, so I hope you can find your favorite. I would like to summarize major openings of swinging rook games […]