A form called "chu-shogi," which was still commonly played in Kyoto until the 1930s, retained the "queen" piece, while the standard game removed it. It's intriguing to think of chess as a game ...

PureArts announced this morning that they will be making a limited edition version of the classic board game Shogi for Assassin's Creed Shadows. Working together with Ubisoft, the two companies ...

They call it AlphaZero, and it knows chess, shogi (which is known as Japanese chess), and Go, a complex board game where black and white stones face off on a large grid. All of these games fall in ...

Although the world of shogi, a board game often described as Japanese chess, has entered an age in which even top professionals cannot beat computer software programs based on artificial ...

Getting to know Hifumi was interesting, but it left me with one burning question: What the heck is Shogi exactly? Persona 5 gave me some inkling, as I watched my main character play a board game ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A 14-year-old Japanese player of the traditional chess-like board game of shogi has captured the nation's heart by winning a record straight 29 matches, breaking a record held ...