Twenty-year-old Sota Fujii became only the second player in the history of the shogi board game to hold six major titles Sunday when he took the Kio crown from Akira Watanabe. Fujii won Game 4 in the tourist city of Nikko, eastern Japan, to finish the best-of-five Kio series against…
Twenty-year-old Sota Fujii becomes only the second player in the history of the shogi board game to hold six major titles as he takes the Kio crown from Akira Watanabe.
Although chess is the most famous game of its kind on the world stage, its Japanese cousin shogi is considerably harder. It’s a lot like chess but if the chess pieces could change their move sets in the middle of the game and captured pieces could suddenly return to the board…
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The Tokyo Metropolitan Police’s Shinagawa division has announced the arrest of Akira Watanabe, a resident of Aichi Prefecture, about halfway across the country from Tokyo. The crime he allegedly committed was targeted at a company headquartered in Tokyo’s Shinagawa Ward, video game publisher Sega. Specifically, Watanabe, 54, was arrested for threats…