London March 2023 meeting on 26.03.2023

There will be a face-to-face meeting of the London Shogi Club on 26.03.2023. We are hoping to hold these meetings monthly where possible, normally on the last Saturday or Sunday of the month. Always check to see if we are meeting, and which day we are meeting on. 

We no longer meet in Covent Garden, and are currently playing in the basement room at Starbucks on Cowcross St, Farringdon. Do check downstairs, as you won't see anyone upstairs. There should be someone around from 11.00am until at least 2pm.

Everyone is very welcome, regardless of strength or experience.

The nearest tube station is Farringdon. Barbican station is also close. It's best to check which lines are running with Transport for London.

If you want to confirm attendance or have a question, feel free to let us know by

• leaving a comment here (google+, wordpress, LJ or similar online ID required)
• posting or commenting on the Shogi London facebook page; or
• sending an email.

Heart of Wales Open 2023 will be held on the late May bank holiday weekend

The Heart of Wales Open 2023 will be held in Llanwrtyd Well, Powys. The area is peaceful and beautiful, and can be reached by road or stopping at Llanwrtyd on the rural Heart of Wales rail line.

Tournament games will be played at the Nant y Walch Barn

(Full address: Nant y Walch Barn, Abergwesyn Road, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys LD5 4TN, Wales, United Kingdom)

The tournament will be run by experienced tournament organisers from Shogi Hamburg with the approval of the British Shogi Federation.

The main event will be 7 rounds, 40 min + 30 sec byoyomi. 

Side events are planned for the 26th and 29th.

More details about accommodation, entry fees, travel to the venue and organiser contact details will follow.

In the mean time if you want to register your interest or have a question, send an email to heart-of-wales-open-2023@gmx.info

London Spring Shogi Tournament will be on 12.03.2022

Michael Green and Natasha Regan have organised an in-person tournament at the London Mindsports Centre in Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith on 12 March 2022.

More details and an entry form are here

It would be great to see you there.

London in-person shogi pub meeting on 03.02.2022

Michael Green has organised  an in-person shogi hang out this Thursday at the Horse & Groom on Great Portland Street at 7:30pm on Thursday 3rd (128 Great Portland St, London, W1W 6PX).

Great Portland Street, Regents Park and Goodge Street underground stations are close by. The nearest rail station is Euston. 

There is no entry fee, but people will need to buy drinks or food so that the venue will be happy. 

Sorry for the short notice. It would be great to see you there!

More news about UK shogi

Natasha Regan has set up an English Shogi Players team on lishogi.org. This is another online server like 81dojo, and has the advantage that it's much easier to set up formal or informal tournaments. The team is having regular arena tournaments, together with a Zoom chat. These are normally at the weekend although we haven't completely settled when they happen.

If you have a connection to UK shogi you would be very welcome - you don't have to be English or British, although we are mainly aiming to bring in people living in the UK. You would need to register on lishogi, then join the English Shogi Players team on lishogi. Then watch out for details of the next arena. Once you have joined you could also ask us for details of the Zoom. 

Hopefully that should be clear enough, but if you have a question, feel free to let us know by

• leaving a comment here (google+, wordpress, LJ or similar online ID required)
• posting or commenting on the Shogi London facebook page; or
• sending an email.

Perhaps London shogi is coming out of hibernation?

We aren't running a London shogi club yet, but some of us are investigating whether we can run a face to face event.  This depends on being able to book a venue, and of course having regard to Covid risks and any restrictions which are in place. If that is successful, maybe we can think about starting up a club.

We will let you know more later.

If you  have a question, feel free to let us know by

• leaving a comment here (google+, wordpress, LJ or similar online ID required)
• posting or commenting on the Shogi London facebook page; or
• sending an email.

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2 online shogi tournaments in August 2020

There are no shogi club meetings at the moment, but two shogi tournaments which would otherwise be held 'face to face' are holding online versions.   

FESA, the organisation which runs the European Shogi Championships has announced that it will hold the 1st European Online Shogi Blitz Championship on August 9th (July 25, 2020). The tournament is open to all European shogi players. It will be a knockout tournament with max. 128 participants and a thinking time of 5 min. + 10 sec. byoyomi. The full tournament information can be found here. Registrations have to be made on the tournament page by August 8th, CEST 16:00 (UTC 14:00). 

The Mind Sports Olympiad, normally held in London in the last week in August is being held virtually. This will include a shogi tournament on 30th August at 3.30pm-6pm. It will be played on 81dojo with a time control of 15mins + 30 seconds byo-yomi.  See www.msoworld.com for more details of the Mind Sports Olympiad.