Guide to on-line Tsume Shogi resources
Resources that you can use to brush up your tsume skill
      1. Manao Kagawa's Youtube channel 女流棋士に挑戦!今日の3手詰
        • Ms. Kagawa is a woman pro Shogi player whose Youtube Channel has more than 100K subscriber.  She amassed massive amount of not so easy 3 move tsume shogi in her channel.
      2. Mori Nobuo's  daily entry level tsume shogi page
        •  Mr. Mori is a professional Shogi player (7 dan as of this writing) who is mostly recognized by his short tsume shogi problems.
        • In this blog style site, he releases new problems almost daily (and those are supposedly entry level problems.)  The problems are first shown as diagram only.  Usually in a day, he posts solution to the probelm in the form of interactive flash board, so you can click away to find the answer to each of the problems.
        • For those who wants more challenging tsume problems, refer to this site, also run by master Mori.
      3. Tsume shogi Paradise 詰め将棋パラダイス
          • This is a site of the prestigeous monthly periodical of the same name.

        The Tsume of the month is shown at the top right corner . This is usually about 9,11 or 13 moves tsume. The number of moves is shown in this format "[手数] n手" where n is number of  moves.   The answer to the problem will be posted few days after the next month begins.  You  can check previous months problem and solution by following "X 月の結果" link (X is number of the month)  If you solve this month's problem, you may want to send your answer to the web master (follow →解答送信). Senders of the correct answer will be mentioned in the following month. 

          • If you scroll down the home page, you will see "Try Everyday" link. This is where the Web host posts easier tsume shogi every day.  The latest 5 problems will be always shown.  Each problem is accompanied with a description which looks like this;  
        yyy/mm/dd/Composer'sname/Number of moves
        For instance 2007/10/4/管理人/5
        After one day of posting, the answer to the problem is posted. Simply click on the problem diagram to see the solution. 
      4. Shogitown's Tsumeshogi pages and youtube posts
          • This site packs alot of information about shogi. There are many tsume shogi material as well. Look for those links on the top page.
            • やさしい3手詰 (Easy 3 move tsume)
            • やさしい5手詰 (Easy 5 move tsume
            • 今週の「やさしい詰み」 (This week's easy tsume)
            • 今週の「実戦の詰み」 (This week's Tsumi of the game)
        The first two  pages are traditional tsume, which shows only those pieces that are needed for the problem. The latter two shows tsume situations in real game surroundings. The last page (This week's tsume of the game) is usually more than 13 moves long and for dan players. In any of those pages, solution can be seen by following "解答を見る " Link. All the pages are being updated weekly.  This site uploads a lot of Tsume problems on  Youtube. There are many 3 and 5 moves tsume listed. 

     

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