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Hasami Shogi

Hasami Shogi

Ultima Architect Inc.

100,000 - 500,000 downloads

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Hasami Shogi is one of the most popular Shogi (Japanese chess) variants. The word "hasami" means "sandwiching" which shortly describes the way of capturing in this game.

It is very challenging board game for all ages, easy to learn but hard to master. Challenge your strategic skills!

===== FEATURES =====
* 1-player mode (Human vs CPU).
* 2-players mode (Human vs Human).
* Watching mode (CPU vs CPU).
* 6 levels of difficulty.
* Various board size (5x5, 6x6, 7x7, 8x8, 9x9).
* Various board theme (Shogi, Chess, Reversi).
* Unlimited undo function.
* Cool graphics and sound effects.
* Sound and vibrator on/off switch.
* Support Tablet size devices.

===== GAME RULES =====
* Each players starts with their own pieces which are placed on the back row of the board.
* The players alternate making a move. Each piece moves as a rook in Chess, horizontally and vertically.
* A piece cannot move through another piece.
* When a player sandwiches opponent's piece(s) by two of his own pieces, he captures the sandwiched piece(s). A player can sandwich horizontally and vertically, but NOT diagonally.
* A Player wins when the opponent only has 4 or less pieces left on the board.

For more details, please see the "how to" page in this app.

Recently changed in this version:

*Minor bugfix. (v1.0.5)


Comments and ratings for Hasami Shogi

  • (64 stars)

    by Jamal N on 13/04/2013

    Great app, simple enough for anyone to use. One problem, if you have a small screen, its hard to select pieeces and move pieces, this problem grows witth larger board sizes as the squarrs become smaller. A zoom feature as is featured in shogi lite would b

  • (64 stars)

    by Yul Otani on 27/02/2013

    The game is nice, but unfortunately on my device it freezes a lot and make the user experience kind of annoying. This seems to be a common behavior with other nexus 7 users.

  • (64 stars)

    by Daniel Akira on 11/02/2013

    The how-to really helped me understand this easy but hard to master game. Nice interface and moving controls.

  • (64 stars)

    by Jose Brito on 16/01/2013

    Love playing controls are easy and its overall fun

  • (64 stars)

    by nobuyuki masuda on 15/01/2013

    Sometime, this app do not work.

  • (64 stars)

    by A Google User on 21/11/2012

    The app functions like it's. Suppose to.