Shogi is an English word with synonyms like chess. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Shogi in a sentence
Shogi meaning
Japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
Synonyms of Shogi
Using Shogi
- The main meaning on this page is: Japanese chess; a board game similar to chess, invented and traditionally played in Japan.
- Useful related words include: chess, chess game.
- In the example corpus, shogi often appears in combinations such as: of shogi, playing shogi, shogi in.
Context around Shogi
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Shogi
- In this selection, "shogi" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, playing, renowned, dai, players, master and main stand out and add context to how "shogi" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 200 professional shogi players compete and a depressed shogi prodigy rei. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "shogi" sits close to words such as abdelaziz, absolutist and accrual, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with shogi
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
About 200 professional shogi players compete. (6 words)
Computers have steadily improved in playing shogi since the 1970s. (10 words)
Computer shogi main Shogi has the highest game complexity of all popular chess variants. (14 words)
It is also common for the white and black player to be indicated at the beginning of the notation string with either black and white triangles or shogi-piece-shaped pentagons, such as ▲７六歩△３四歩▲２六歩△３二金 main or ☗７六歩☖３四歩☗２六歩☖３二金 main. (44 words)
According to The Chess Variant Pages : Perhaps the enduring popularity of shogi can be attributed to its ‘drop rule’; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own. (41 words)
When Asuma is fatally injured in battle, he reminds Shikamaru that the shogi king must always be protected, and draws a parallel between the king in shogi and his yet-unborn daughter, Mirai, whom he wanted Shikamaru to guide. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
He trained his problem-solving skills with his father, a renowned shogi master while playing shogi.
Around the 15th century, the rules of dai shogi were simplified, creating the game of chu shogi in a form close to the modern game.
Computer shogi main Shogi has the highest game complexity of all popular chess variants.
Eventually, Small Shogi (though it went through many forms) won out over the larger variants and is now referred to simply as 'Shogi'.
Masuda’s assertion is said to have eventually led to the exemption of shogi from the list of items to be banned. citation The closest cousin of shogi in the chaturanga family is makruk of Thailand.
When Asuma is fatally injured in battle, he reminds Shikamaru that the shogi king must always be protected, and draws a parallel between the king in shogi and his yet-unborn daughter, Mirai, whom he wanted Shikamaru to guide.
Rei soon finds himself the familial love he’d desired his entire life, but he still can't decide if that's enough to stop him from playing shogi.
Yet, that conclusion doesn't strike the show's hero, a depressed shogi prodigy Rei Kiriyama.
About 200 professional shogi players compete.
According to The Chess Variant Pages : Perhaps the enduring popularity of shogi can be attributed to its ‘drop rule’; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.
An illegal move results in an immediate loss of the game in professional and tournament shogi, even if play continued and the move was discovered later in game.
Computers have steadily improved in playing shogi since the 1970s.
Etiquette Shogi players are expected to follow etiquette in addition to rules explicitly described.
From around 1899, newspapers began to publish records of shogi matches, and high-ranking players formed alliances with the aim of having their games published.
Goita Goita (ごいた) is a partnership climbing and beating game from Noto, Ishikawa played with 32 tiles or cards based on Shogi pieces.
In this case, the higher classed player, in either social or genuine shogi player rank, may take the king piece.
In western-style notation for shogi, the move numbering tends to follow western chess notation conventions.
It is also common for the white and black player to be indicated at the beginning of the notation string with either black and white triangles or shogi-piece-shaped pentagons, such as ▲７六歩△３四歩▲２六歩△３二金 main or ☗７六歩☖３四歩☗２六歩☖３二金 main.
It is thought that the rules of standard shogi were fixed in the 16th century, when the drunken elephant was removed from the set of pieces.
On a traditional shogi-ban, the pitch of the snap is deeper, delivering a subtler effect.
Common combinations with shogi
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of shogi 4×
- playing shogi 3×
- shogi in 3×
- in shogi 3×
- shogi were 2×
- shogi has 2×
- the shogi 2×
- shogi and 2×
- shogi players 2×
- on shogi 2×