Customers say
Customers find the shogi set to be of good quality, with a solid board and nice appearance, particularly appreciating its great size for travel. The game is fun to play and considered a fun variant of chess, while offering good value for money. The magnetic pieces receive mixed feedback – while they stick well to the board, customers note the magnets are weak. The instructions are also mixed, with many finding them confusing, and customers disagree on the sturdiness of the pieces.
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A quick rundown of this product’s key features:
Classic Magnetic Shogi Set: An ideal travel set for the strategy board game enthusiast; This set comes with magnetic board and playing pieces; Board measures 9.75 x 9.75 x 0.9″ ( 24.8 x 24.8 x 2.3cm)
Traditional Designed Playing Pieces: The set includes 18 pawns, 2 rooks, 2 bishops, 4 lances, 4 knights, 4 silver generals, 4 gold generals, and 2 kings
Portable Yet Comfortable Size: King piece: 0.75 x 0.16 x 0.83″ (1.9 x 0.4 x 2.1cm); Silver and Gold General: 0.71 x 0.16 x 0.79″ (1.8 x 0.4 x 2cm); Pawns: 0.59 x 0.16 x 0.67″ (1.5 x 0.4 x 1.7cm)
Benefits of Shogi: A highly cerebral game, playing Japanese Chess helps develop and improve logical reasoning and memory skills; It also enhances strategic ability and trains players how to manage their resources
Ready to Play: Full English illustrated instruction manual included; Entire set weighs 0.9lbs (380g)
Our Top Reviews
Reviewer: David Boyes
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: As described.
Review: As described.
Reviewer: Justin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: could be better. confusing instructions
Review: YMI lists the dimensions on the product page. its not their fault i had the wrong mental picture. this set feels pretty small over all. i dont like that the pieces come on the sprue or that the magnets inside rattle like a musical instrument. the magnets feel weak but will hold the pieces in place if the board is sideways no matter which way the pieces are flipped. the instructions are confusing. the booklet shows different kanji than what are written on the actual pieces. in the end i got this set on sale and its worth the price. if i love the game i will give this away and buy the YMI wood travel set.
Reviewer: Devon
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Shogi wherever you go!
Review: I must say, finding a shogi board at a nice price in the united states is hard enough. But then try to find one that can take on the rigors of a collage back pack, one that if it does break, wont break your wallet to replace it. As a beginner to shogi, I thought it would be wonderful to have such a board, to bring around with me, and teach friends with, and in the mean time I could get better at it too!This was a fine purchase, I eagerly awaited its arrival and wasn’t disappointed. Each piece is double sided, as it should be, And there is a small magnet inside of the sandwiched plastic piece. These aren’t strong magnets, but strong enough to play on a bus, or in a bumpy car with no problems, (who wants to play shogi upside down anyway?) The pieces themselves come on a little plastic frame all stuck together, Similar to those plastic model kits that you put together, all you have to do is snap them off the frame, and smooth out the bump left behind by scratching it off. If you pry the pieces apart, which isn’t hard to do, you could lose a magnet or something, so don’t do it, and you wont have any problems.The case/board is rugged plastic with a metal playing surface, and comes in a relatively sturdy cardboard box to keep it safe from dust, scratches light rain etc. It’s small enough to fit in a back pack or i suppose a large purse, But not too small like some other sets i’ve seen, which you almost have to play with tweezers. This set is just the right size especially for beginners who have a hard time remembering the characters on the pieces are.Some last things i’d like to say are that this set doesn’t come with any way to keep the pieces separated, (mini boxes, etc.) and doesn’t have piece stands, as some more experienced players may be used to. However, all in all, this is a nice Shogi set, that will give you many hours of strategic fun and will hold up under the wear and tear of daily life, as long as you treat it nicely.
Reviewer: Chastity White Rose
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Perfect
Review: This shogi set is quite convenient and has a place to store the pieces. I taught my friend how to play shogi now with it.
Reviewer: garrettg151
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: wrote review for wrong game if its still there
Review: people are complaining about the instructions not matching the pieces, and it’s just because they can’t read Japanese… they match fine, but it does take a second to read the stylized font if you don’t know kanji. ink does smudge really easily or did when it was fresh. I don’t know how it will age its a great set for the price.
Reviewer: Francisco Ramirez Gonzalez
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice Magnetic Shogi Set
Review: I came to know Shogi because of Anime, but after reading in Wikipedia and other websites, It really seems an entertainment game, quite like chess but more challenging.This Shogi set it quite nice, pieces would fall if you turn it down, but I don’t think you would do that anyway.My only complaint is that the Kanjis seams a little bit different from what you would see in almost every single website, but this is not a big issue since you can distinguish a little bit, (it seems this is a two characters with cursive style kanjis version) a side from that I recommend this Shogi set as a starting set it’s nice, well made and cheap what else do you what? (well perhaps a little rules explanation would have been a good idea, but you do have Internet right?)If you would like to learn more from Shogi I recommend Wikipedia and Hidetchi youTube Shogi Channel (where you will find an excellent English video lessons).
Reviewer: Annette Guadagnin
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great game, not a great set
Review: I got this because I wanted to play shogi. It is more fun than I thought it would be. You only have 1 rook and 1 bishop, with all of your other pieces only being able to move 1 square at a time. The trick is that you can play captured enemy pieces as your own.Now for the review of this particular set.1. It does not come with an instruction sheet, so you will have to look up the rules online.2. The kanji are not as clear as they are in the pictures, they use a different font. It looks like it was put on using a caligraphy brush making the symbols less clear and may be hard to read if you are not familiar with kanji.3. The board/case is strong and feels like it will survive a beating but for me it doesn’t seal, so it falls open pretty easily. There is also no holder for the pieces so if it does open up the pieces will go everywhere.4. The magnets are strong. Despite what others said you can play with it upside as long as you are caruful about how you got it into that position. I still agree with the other reviewers that I have no idea why you would want to though.I would have to recommend it just for the fact of the near impossibility of finding a decent shogi game here in the States.
Reviewer: Kevin Marquez
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Good for beginners
Review: Smaller prices than expected, but board easily fits onto a cramped office desk. Kanji on pieces is clear and legible, though the same can’t be said for the ones on the instructions, but the overall shapes were distinct enough for me to differentiate between pieces. Good enough set to learn from.
Reviewer: María José
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: A mí hijo le gustó, está imantado y se guardan las fichas dentro al doblarse y cerrarse para q no se pierdan
Reviewer: Tresoldi Emanuele
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Buon rapporto qualità prezzo, il gioco è ovviamente bellissimo ..
Reviewer: Leonardo
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Para el precio, es adecuado, por lo que no es muy grande y las piezas son de plástico. El imán que maneja no es muy potente, pero si lo suficiente para dejar las piezas pegadas al tablero al voltearlo de cabeza.En resumen, es muy buen producto.
Reviewer: Andrés OM
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Perfecto para viajes
Reviewer: dont_emma
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Zum empfehlen ✨️ mein Sohn ist sehr begeistert, hat viel Spaß damit.
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