shogi

Might help that I also played Shogi rather intensely and after being used to Shogi, the chess board feels very small.

He could be thinking of shogi (though the kanji is 定跡 where joseki from go is 定石), where joseki refers to the well studied ways to play the opening of the game.

But AlphaGo Zero and AlphaZero trained entirely through self-play and began uncovering new strategies across Go, chess, and shogi.

It may well be Shogi inspired but then it must have happened a long time ago.

In Shogi the pieces are flat, and you can turn them over to change color.

Traditional board games like Go and Shogi have faced a lot of competition from video games over the past few decades.

This is even closer than a shogi 9-dan becoming a chess master at 30.

I don't know what would suit better, but finding chess, shogi, go, xiangqi as boring would just mean you don't understand something.

I particularly like shogi because it has the rule that you can reuse the pieces of your opponent you capture.

You can try Chinese chess (xiang qi) or Japanese chess (shogi).

The best has been someone in their late 20s starting to play chess and becoming a master, when they were already holding high dan at shogi.

I remember Shogi being described as similarly hard - I think the re-played captured pieces might be what makes the tree explode.

I'm by no means a proficient shogi player -- but found it a refreshing "variant" of chess.

I wonder if it is still the case that Japanese Chess (shogi) is also considered "too hard" for AI.

I've never heard of Crazyhouse before, but the drop rule is clearly inspired by Shogi (sometimes colloquially referred to in English as "Japanese Chess").

Shogi is derived from xiangqi (same with Korean chess or janggi).

Since the 1970s at least, I've been reading articles about trying to beat chess and go as major milestones, but not Shogi.

Shogi programs only match up in the standard 9x9 board.