To make Shogi more accessible, Madoka invented a small Shogi variant of 3 X 4 squares, named Let's Catch the Lion!: Japanese Animal Chess. According to Madoka, more than 95% of Shogi players ...

Fourteen-year-old Sota Fujii, the youngest-ever professional shogi player who has just set the longest winning streak of 29 matches, is not only known for his outstanding talent but his fiery ...

which became a hit even outside shogi circles. The game is played on a small board of only three by four squares and with an army of only four pieces on each side: a lion, an elephant, a giraffe ...

Generational talent Sota Fujii continued his unstoppable rise to king of the shogi record books by becoming the youngest holder of the oldest and most prestigious title, the Meijin. Fujii bested ...

Fujii Sota's Eight Crowns: How the King of Shogi Beat the Odds Japanese chess, or shogi, has a history dating back centuries. But in October, Fujii Sota accomplished something that's never been ...