Karolina?Styczy?ska (Oneye) made shogi history last night by participating in the Ricoh Cup Joryu Ouza Tournament. ?More than just participate, though, Karolina, who has been playing shogi for only a few years, became the first foreigner to defeat a lady professional in a pro tournament. ?The kifu is available to view on 81 Dojo.
More on the Asahi Shimbun website (in Japanese).
Karolina Styczy?ska, better known as Oneye by members of the 81-Square Universe and 81 Dojo, will be making shogi history today at 1 PM Japanese time as she makes an appearance in the Ricoh Cup Joryu Ouza tournament. ?Her first opponent is Sachiko Takamure Ladies 3-dan. ?You’ll be able to watch the game LIVE online here?or by clicking through the featured banner above the news posts. ?Today is an exciting day for foreign shogi fans!
Beau Mueller has created the first Shogi Social Network, Shogi.ME. ?It has a couple of cool features, taken from the site:
Site Membership?? Join shogi.ME and?make shogi friends from all over the world!
Share videos, pictures, events and more?? this site provides an excellent platform to share your shogi videos, pictures, news and just about anything else you want
Shogi Groups?? Set up a group for your national organization, your local club, your shogi website ? whatever you want!? The groups function of this site will allow users to unite their members and expand interest in whatever shogi pursuit?they are after.? You should be able to post in different languages as well (??????????? ????, etc.)
Shogi news?? We will be posting the latest shogi news and will look to our members to be active contributors!? We want the site to be for shogi what?ChessBase.com?is for chess.
Go check it out!
-hirohiigo
Hi everyone! ?It?s been a while.
I thought it was time for a new redesign of The 81-Square Universe. ?My limited web programming skills were showing quite badly in the old design, so I decided to switch over to a WordPress layout, which will be much easier to manage. ?I hope you like the new look; I certainly do. ?I?m hoping to get some more updates on here soon now that it?ll be easier to implement everything. ?Hang tight, we?ll be up and running again shortly.
Thanks for sticking with us!
