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NHK Cup (shogi)
The NHK Cup, officially the , is a Professional shogi player#Tournaments, professional shogi tournament organized by the Japan Shogi Association and sponsored by Japan's Public broadcasting#Japan, public broadcaster NHK. History Formerly known as the , the 1st NHK Cup was held in 1951 with eight professional shogi players. The winner was Yoshio Kimura (shogi), Yoshio Kimura, who held the Meijin (shogi), Meijin title at the time. Prior to 1962, the tournament was broadcast only on the radio, but starting with the 12th NHK Cup (1962), the tournament moved to television. The 26th NHK Cup (1976) was the first to be broadcast in color. Up until and including the 15th NHK Cup (1965), only Meijin (shogi)#Qualifying, Class A professionals were allowed to participate. When the number of players was increased from 8 to 16 for the 16th NHK Cup (1966), the tournament became open to other professionals as well. The number of players was increased again from 16 to 26 for the 27th NHK Cup (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shogi
, also known as Japanese chess, is a Strategy game, strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as chess, Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. ''Shōgi'' means general's (''shō'' ) board game (''gi'' ). Shogi was the earliest historical chess-related game to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player. This ''drop rule'' is speculated to have been invented in the 15th century and possibly connected to the practice of 15th-century Mercenary#15th to 18th centuries, mercenaries switching loyalties when captured instead of being killed. The earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century, and the game was likely transmitted to Japan via China or Korea sometime after the Nara period."Shogi". ''Encyclopædia Britannica''. 2002. Shogi in its present form was played as early as the 16th century, while a direct ancesto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Social Distancing
In public health, social distancing, also called physical distancing, (NB. Regula Venske is president of the PEN Centre Germany.) is a set of non-pharmaceutical interventions or measures intended to prevent the spread of a contagious disease by maintaining a physical distance between people and reducing the number of times people come into close contact with each other. It usually involves keeping a certain distance from others (the distance specified differs from country to country and can change with time) and avoiding gathering together in larger groups. By minimising the probability that a given uninfected person will come into physical contact with an infected person, the disease transmission can be suppressed, resulting in fewer deaths. The measures may be used in combination with other public health recommendations, such as good respiratory hygiene, use of face masks when necessary, and hand washing. To slow down the spread of infectious diseases and avoid overb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Byo-yomi
A time control is a mechanism in the tournament play of almost all two-player board games so that each round of the match can finish in a timely way and the tournament can proceed. For turn-based games such as chess, shogi or go, time controls are typically enforced by means of a game clock, which counts time spent on each player's turn separately. A player that spends more time than the time control allows is penalized, usually by the loss of the game. Time pressure (or time trouble or ''Zeitnot'') is the situation where one player has very little time on their clock to complete their remaining moves. Classification The amount of time given to each player to complete their moves will vary from game to game. However, most games tend to change the classification of tournaments according to the length of time given to the players. In chess, various classification schemes are used. FIDE defines time controls based on the sum of the amount of time allotted to each player, plus the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Game Clock
A chess clock is a device that comprises two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never run simultaneously. The clocks are used in games where the time is allocated between two parties. The purpose is to keep track of the total time each party takes and prevent delays. Parties may take more or less time over any individual move. Chess clocks were first used extensively in tournament chess, beginning with a competition at the London 1883 tournament. They are often called game clocks, as their use has since spread to tournament Scrabble, shogi, Go, and nearly every competitive two-player board game, as well as other types of games. Various designs exist for chess clocks and different methods of time control may be employed on the clocks, with "sudden death" being the simplest. Description A chess clock consists of two adjacent clocks with buttons to stop one clock while starting the other, so that the two clocks never ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sennichite
''Sennichite'' (千日手, ''lit.'' "moves (for) a thousand days") or repetition draw is a rule in shogi stating that the game will end in a draw if the same position is repeated four times during a game as long as the repetitions do not involve checks. Explanation If the same game position occurs four times with the same player to move and the same pieces in hand for each player, then the game ends in ''sennichite'' iff the positions are not due to perpetual check. (Perpetual check is an illegal move, which ends the game in a loss in tournament play.) In professional shogi, a ''sennichite'' outcome is not a final result of a match as draws essentially do not count. There can be only one victorious through wins. This is a significant difference from western chess, in which a player can play specifically to obtain draws for gaining half points. In the case of ''sennichite'', professional shogi players will have to immediately play a subsequent game (or as many games as necessary) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bracket (tournament)
A bracket or tournament bracket is a tree-like diagram that represents the series of games played during a knockout tournament. Different knockout tournament formats have different brackets; the simplest and most common is that of the single-elimination tournament. The name "bracket" is American English, derived from the resemblance of the links in the tree diagram to the bracket punctuation symbol ] or seeding. In some tournaments, the full bracket is determined before the first match. In such cases, fans may enjoy trying to predict the winners of the initial round and of the consequent later matchups. This is called "bracketology", particularly in relation to the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. This prediction is not possible in tournaments such as the FA Cup and the UEFA Champions League knockout phase, in which the pairings for a later round might not be made until after the previous round has been played (UEFA Champions League makes its ultimate bracket draw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kisei (shogi)
is one of the eight major titles in Japanese professional shogi. The word ''Kisei'' means an excellent player of shogi or Go (boardgame), go. Although 聖 can be translated as saint, in this context it is probably better to see it in English as master or Grandmaster (chess), grandmaster, as in chess. The Kisei tournament started in 1962. With the creation of the Kisei, there were five major title tournaments along with the Meijin, Tenth Dan (Ryūō), Ōshō, and Ōi (shogi), Ōi titles. It was held twice a year until the year 1994. The challenger for Kisei title holder is determined by first, second, and final preliminary rounds. The player that wins three games out of five first in the championship will become the new Kisei title holder. Lifetime Kisei The title is awarded to a player who has won Kisei Championship five times. Active players may qualify for this title, but it is only officially awarded upon their retirement or death. The following professionals have qualifie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oi (shogi)
Oi (also as OI) may refer to: In biology * Grey-faced petrel, also known by its Māori name ''oi'' * Orthostatic intolerance, a disorder of the autonomic nervous system * Osteogenesis imperfecta, a group of genetic bone disorders In business * Oi (telecommunications), the largest landline telephone company in Brazil * Operational intelligence, in business analytics * Organizational intelligence, in business manage In linguistics * Oi (digraph), a Latin-script digraph * Oi (interjection), an interjection used to get someone's attention, or to express surprise or disapproval * Oi language, a Mon–Khmer dialect cluster of southern Laos * Gha, a letter (Ƣ ƣ) erroneously referred to by Unicode as "oi" In music * Oi!, a subgenre of punk rock * "Oi!" (song), a 2002 hit song for British grime music crew More Fire Crew Organisations * Oi! (Hong Kong), a visual arts organisation in Hong Kong * Oi (Indonesia), an Iwan Fals fanbase foundation in Indonesia * Oriental Institute (disa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oza (shogi)
Oza or OZA may refer to: Title * Ōza (shogi), a title in shogi * Ōza (go), a title in Go People * Ghanshyam Oza (1911–2002), Indian politician * Goverdhan Lal Oza (1924–?), Indian judge * Kaajal Oza Vaidya (born 1966), Indian author * Kamlesh Oza, Indian actor * Nimit Oza (born 1981), Indian writer and columnist * Ramesh Oza (born 1957), Hindu spiritual leader * Rohan Oza (born 1971), American businessman * Shefali Oza (born 1967), Indian television personality * Aditya Oza (born 2004), Indian Researcher Transport * Ozark Air Lines (ICAO: OZA), a defunct American airline that operated from 1950 to 1986 *Ozona Municipal Airport (IATA: OZA), Texas, United States; See List of airports by IATA airport code: O See also * Ojha, an Indian surname {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osho (shogi)
Rajneesh (born Chandra Mohan Jain; 11 December 193119 January 1990), also known as Acharya Rajneesh, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, and later as Osho (), was an Indian godman, philosopher, mystic and founder of the Rajneesh movement. He was viewed as a controversial new religious movement leader during his life. He rejected institutional religions, insisting that spiritual experience could not be organized into any one system of religious dogma. As a guru, he advocated meditation and taught a unique form called dynamic meditation. Rejecting traditional ascetic practices, he advocated that his followers live fully in the world but without attachment to it. Rajneesh experienced a spiritual awakening in 1953 at the age of 21. Following several years in academia, in 1966 Rajneesh resigned his post at the University of Jabalpur as a lecturer in philosophy, and began traveling throughout India, becoming known as a vocal critic of the orthodoxy of mainstream religions, as well as of m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
