shogi

[ shoh-gee ]

noun

the Japanese version of chess.

Origin of shogi

¹

1880–85; <Japanese shōgi<Middle Chinese, equivalent to Chinese jiāng commander + qí chess

Words Nearby shogi

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How to use shogi in a sentence

The chess-playing AlphaZero cannot play Go and the Go-playing one cannot play shogi.
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Having mastered chess, AlphaZero has to wipe its memory and learn shogi from scratch.
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