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  • Central Rook, Joseki

    Central Rook, Joseki

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    Rembrandt
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    This article introduces a basic opening for the Central Rook, which is a swinging rook strategy, where the rook is swung to 5th file. Central rook was a defensive strategy aiming counterattacks, but a professional player Masakazu Kondo established innovative opening strategy called Gokigen Central Rook. “Gokigen” means happy or feeling good in Japanese. The…

  • Major Opening Strategies in Swinging Rook Games

    Major Opening Strategies in Swinging Rook Games

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    There are two parties in Shogi players. One is static rook player, and the other is swinging rook player. In this article, you can look over the major opening strategies in swinging rook games. For the static rook games, please check the previously issued articles. Rook is the strongest piece, and swinging rook can use…