I am a Japanese native living in the United States for more than half of my life. When I lived in Japan, (that was a long time ago indeed) playing Shogi was one of my hobby.

I haven't played it for a long time until I discovered PlayOK boardgame site. When I saw some people didn't seem to have a clue as how to play this game, I decided to start this site

I hold a bachelor's degree in Electrical engineering and worked as an engineering manager for a fairly large size organization located in mid-east USA. I am now retired.

I have many hobbies. My current interests include the following

• Playing Shogi (of course!)
• learning Web page creation
• CSS Styling
• Javascript/TypeScript
• PHP scripting
• Web Site creation using ModX
• Web page editing using MS-office SharePoint Service
• Programming with Delphi/Turbo Pascal (Now lazarus/free Pascal). Finally moved into C#. despite C connotation, this language feels very much Pascal
• Tinkering with electronics (Arduino , Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone etc.,)
• Cycling
• Walking

So running this site serves two purposes for me. One is to provide some guide to Shogi beginners and Two is to satisfy my desire to work on web site and test out new programming ideas.

The latter has a side effect of the site sometimes go haywire. Please bear with me.