![]() ![]() Living in Brazil for 5 years, Japanese journalist Tatsuya Ishikawa was one of the instructors. (Photo by Henrique Minatogawa) By overcoming these three barriers, I believe anyone can learn shogi or anything else, knowing how to read Japanese or not." Learning a little every day is the hard part. ![]() We all have difficulty at some point in learning. There are many different types of people in the world and not very many might be interested in shogi. "Learning to play shogi has three main barriers," says Rodrigo Yuji, 25, pharmacist, third generation, and a shogi practitioner since 2012. Why is it that the "difficulty" factor was attributed to shogi? I wonder if it is because there is a kanji stamped instead of a piece carved in the shape of a horse or a rook. It plays like chess, but more difficult." However, all of my childhood curiosity about shogi received the same answer: "it is the Japanese chess. ![]() Occasionally, I have seen a board in some store in Liberdade, the Asian district of Sao Paulo. I do not remember seeing a board and pieces in the house of any relative. In my family, no one knows how to play shogi. I even learned to play chess at school in college, there was a chess club, but I was not a member. The expression "checkmate" for example, is used in various everyday situations. Not that chess is extremely popular in this country it is only that many people have at least some knowledge of its basic rules. Pawn, tower, horse, bishop, and king, in Brazil, these names refer to chess pieces. ![]()
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