Here are details for a Shogi tournament and display at the Spitalfields Market Japanese Festival.
Time - from 10 am until around 5 pm
Place - Spitalfields Market in East London
Format - three round shogi tournament at 30 minutes plus 40 seconds byo-yomi
Please enter by email to David Faldon in advance to ensure that we have enough sets and clocks. If enough players have FESA grades the games will be rated.
Players will also be around to demonstrate shogi to visitors to the festival.
The nearest tube stations to Spitalfields Market are Liverpool Street (go north up Bishopsgate then east along Brushfield Street) and Aldgate East (go north up Commercial Street). It's best to check which lines are running with Transport for London.
The Shogi tournament is part of the Spitalfields Japan Matsuri Festival 2009 so there will be many interesting attractions to visit between and after the games (the Festival runs until 8 pm).
Information on the London Shogi Club, shogi events in or near London, and occasional other stuff. Shogi is Japanese chess, and the key way it differs from regular chess is that when you take your opponent pieces, you keep them, and can 'drop' them back on the board later. It's pretty popular in Japan so you often see it in anime and Japanese art, but it's not very well known in the UK.
Saturday, 12 September 2009
Thursday, 3 September 2009
September 2009 event and meeting
The September meeting of the London Shogi Club on 19.09.2009. It will be held as part of the Japan Matsuri Festival 2009 which is being held in the very nice Spitalfields Market. We hope to arrange a tournament and a presentation to visitors to the festival. Timings and more details will be provided when we have them.
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