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.
