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Jan 29 2010 3 Comments

Checkmate?

When it comes to entertainment, Tokyo arguably offers more than what’s manageable — sometimes even what’s unimaginable; however, more often than not such activities require cash, and quite often considerable amounts of it too.

But that said, there are alternatives, and whilst a calming and yet competitive game of shogi in the park may well be cold, it costs next to nothing.

Japanese chess (shogi)

Which for some may well be seen as essential.

Japanese chess (shogi)

Categorized: Culture, Photography

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  1. Billy W says

    1/29/2010 at 8:55 pm

    You kidding? Those guys were high stakes players before they lost the edge. Guy in the first
    pic has his hood pulled down low cuz he’s in to the yaks for about 500万.

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  2. takodori says

    1/29/2010 at 9:31 pm

    If you are more interested in shogi, good videos are available to watch on YouTube. Please check them out.

    What is the shogi
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNGwChosTY8

    Top menu of HIDETCHI’s Shogi Videos
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZugDQ0vfL8

    Reply
  3. phossil says

    1/30/2010 at 7:50 am

    First time I saw Shogi game was in Ranma 1/2 anime episodes.

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