Inisghts, lobby, layout and shoginet changes, checkshogi and much more! Hello everyone, I got another update here, so let's go through what's new. Insights Who doesn't like some graphs or charts. Well now you can easily find a lot of information about how you play from insights. There are 6 different tabs, each focused on a different theme: Outcomes: Win rate and game terminations. Moves: Number of moves and details on pieces moved, dropped, captured, etc. Times: How long it took you to think of a move, how long you spent thinking in total and more... Opponents: Average opponent rating/rati ..read more

Stronger engine in standard games Hello everyone, I hope the new year has been treating you well. Here are some changes and new features. In standard games you are now going to face YaneuraOu NNUE, which means the games should get a bit harder, games from position are still going to be played by Fairy-Stockfish, since it can handle much wider set of positions You can now request server evaluation, the evaluation is being run on a distributed network that you can also be part of, if you are interested check out this github link. This also means that if no clients are available, it might take ..read more

Minor stability updates and email confirmation. Hello everyone, Once again, I fixed some bugs that managed to slip through, one of them especially was rather severe, causing the server to go down. This hopefully shouldn't happen anymore. I also decided to require new users to confirm their email address, since I noticed some suspicious registrations. This means that after you register, you need to check your email and confirm the registration. Please also check your spam folder, it's possible that the email might end up there. If you run into any troubles, don't hesitate to contact me. If you ..read more

I hope you will enjoy your stay here - currently in a test run. Bug fixes incoming. Currently in a test run - many features are still missing. I'm working on fixing it though. Hey there and welcome to https://lishogi.org! Lishogi is based on lichess.org and it's here to offer everyone a chance to learn and play shogi. But this being the first version of the website, it's expected that there are gonna be some bugs, I will try to find and get rid of them, of course I could use your help with this, so if you find any please contact me on contact@https://lishogi.org or submit an issue on github ..read more

New variants, new features and bug fixes. Hello everyone, As always I'm here with a new update, so let's take a look at what's new, what's been fixed, and what has changed! New Variants Not one new variant, but two at the same time. Annan shogi The rules are very similar to standard shogi, with one big exception - if a piece has another friendly piece directly behind it, the front piece moves in the same manner as the piece behind it. If you are interested in this variant check out the variant page of Annan shogi, where I go into more detail about the rules of Annan shogi. Please note that An ..read more

Just some small but nice changes Hello there! I would like to share with you some recent changes and fixes to Lishogi. While these changes may be smaller, they're designed to improve your overall experience on the site. So, without further ado, let's dive into what's new. Post-game study Starting a study after finishing a game was always kind of a cumbersome process. Now after you finish a game, you will see 'Study with opponent' button. Clicking this button will redirect you to a post-game study where you and the opponent have the right to contribute and study the game together. This button ..read more

A new update? It's true, so let's take a look at what's new. Hello there, it's been a while since the last update. So let's look at what's new. Shogiground When you see an interactive board or a miniboard anywhere on Lishogi, the library responsible for displaying that board is called shogiground. I made some substantial rewrites to make it more suitable for shogi. It was moved to its own repository and you can also find it on npm, if you want to use it in your own projects. Let's look at the most visible changes. Board Previously the board background was just an image. This had two main issu ..read more

First variant is now available on lishogi. But also other new features and many bug fixes. Minishogi First shogi variant is here and it's minishogi! The rules are very similar to standard shogi, the most obvious change being the smaller board. How the rules of minishogi differ from standard shogi is very briefly described here. Currently two other variants are planned - Kyoto shogi and Chu Shogi. If you are familiar with these variants and want to help, please look at the corresponding issues on github. If you want to request a variant, you believe would be reasonably popular, you can create ..read more

Import and export CSA Hey there, last time we added support for KIF format and now lishogi also supports CSA. You can read more about this format here. It's mostly used for games only, unlike KIF, it doesn't support variations (branching), so keep that in mind, when exporting to this format. Importing Everywhere where you could previously import KIF, you can now also import CSA, let's quickly go through the options once again. Analysis In analysis board below the KIF section you can now also find CSA section. Paste the CSA there and then click IMPORT CSA. Game Import Of course the same goes ..read more

Added exporting to GIFs and searching finally implemented... GIFs You can now export your games to a GIF. This is how it looks. You can find this option at the same place where you would export the game to kif format. You can also export the main line from your studies like this. Thanks to this all games and puzzles will now also have a thumbnail generated, when you link to them on social media. The source code is available here: https://github.com/WandererXII/lishogi-gif. This being the first version, it's possible some design changes or other tweaks might be necessary. Only the default pi ..read more