Gnu Shogi Database (GSDB)

Browse hundreds of historical professional and amateur shogi games. Select a collection, pick a game, and replay it on the interactive board.

Kifu is a shogi game record. Every move is written down so the game can be replayed and studied later. Serious students of shogi build up - and work through - large libraries of kifu to understand openings, middlegame plans and yose (end-game) technique.

The Gnu Shogi Database (GSDB) is a collection of Japanese chess games and sample openings. Hundreds of shogi kifu (game records) have been documented. The orignal GSDB comes with an applet that allows viewing and manipulating of the collections. Unfortunately, the web browsing industry has discontinued support for Java applets. That makes browsing the collections trickier, without a little help.

For those techies interested in browsing the original GSDB 2.7.4 source code and license, you can download it here.

Just a note on shogi rankings: The lowest ranking is 15-kyu. The rankings go down to 1-kyu as the player improves. After 1-kyu, rankings begin counting up with 1-dan all the way up to 9-dan. Professional shogi players begin around 5-kyu and go up to 9-dan (the champion professional). Ameteurs of the same rank as professionals are typically less skilled than their professional counterparts.

Junisen – Kifu #183

[Name "Matt Casters"] [Email "[email protected]"] [Country "Japan"] [Sente "Kazushiza Horiguchi"] [Gote "Hisashi Namekata"] [Black_grade "4dan"] [White_grade "5dan"] [Result "1-0"] [Comment "Opening: Anaguma vs Shikenbisha"] [Source "Patrick Davin's Shogi Nexus website"] [Event "55th Jun'i-sen, C2 Group"] [Date "19970212"] [Round "10"] [Venue "Tokyo"] [Proam "Professional"] P7g-7f P3c-3d P2g-2f P4c-4d P2f-2e B2b-3c S3i-4h P9c-9d P5g-5f R8b-4b K5i-6h S7a-7b K6h-7h S3a-3b G4i-5h P9d-9e S4h-5g G4a-5b P6g-6f P6c-6d B8h-7g P7c-7d K7h-8h N8a-7c L9i-9h P4d-4e G5h-6g P8c-8d K8h-9i N7c-8e B7g-8h P6d-6e P5f-5e B3cx5e P6fx6e B5ex8h+ S7ix8h P'6f G6g-6h P4e-4f P4gx4f P9e-9f P9gx9f B'4g G6i-7h B4gx6e+ B'2b L1a-1b S5gx6f +B6ex7f B2b-5e+ P'9g L9hx9g N8ex9g+ S8hx9g L'5d +B5ex9a +B7fx6f G6h-7g +B6f-3c P'7c S7b-8c +B9a-8b P'9e L'4e P9ex9f L4ex4b+ K5ax4b S9g-8h L'7e +B8bx8c G6a-5a P'9h S'6i S'7i K4b-3a P'6f P'4h +B8cx7d S6ix7h+ S7ix7h L7ex7g+ S7hx7g L5d-5g+ R'9a G'4a L'4e +L5g-6g N'4d G5b-4c P'5b