Shogi Castle: Japanese Chess

Tsume puzzles, bots and review

Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Learn shogi from zero. A verified tsume every day, Mino, a bot that learned from real players and runs on your device, and a review of every game. iPad in landscape. Shogi is Japanese chess: capture a piece and it joins YOUR army. Shogi Castle teaches it from the first move and gives you somewhere to use it every day, on a phone or a tablet. LEARN FROM ZERO Ten short lessons take you from an empty board to your first castle. Every lesson is hands on: you move the pieces, and the app checks your move against the real rules. No jargon, no walls of text. DAILY TSUME Tsume are checkmate puzzles, the way shogi players have trained for centuries. One shared puzzle a day, a practice ladder from mate in one to mate in eleven that remembers what you missed and brings it back at the right time, and Sprint: ninety seconds of short mates against the clock. The library holds 1,561 problems, each one machine-checked so that exactly one line wins. Puzzles taken from real games are a separate set: there, any mate counts. BEST MOVE Thousands of positions from real games with one clearly best move, and often no mate at all. Sacrifice, drop, promotion, quiet move: practice one idea at a time. MINO, A BOT THAT PLAYS LIKE A PERSON Twelve levels of practice opponent. The first eight learned from real players' games and move the way people of that strength move, mistakes included; the top four calculate on our server and need a connection. Mino runs on your device, so levels 1 to 8 play offline with no waiting. The levels wear a number and not a kyu grade, because we have measured that each rung beats the one below it and have not measured where any of them sits on a human scale. Play with a clock or without one, resign politely, play again. REVIEW EVERY GAME After a game the review marks the moments where the game turned, worked out on your device with no connection needed. Ask our server for the whole game and it grades every move, gives your accuracy and names the losing move, or for a deep analysis of any one position. PLAY OTHER PEOPLE Ranked shogi online in two time controls, blitz and standard, each with a rating of its own. If nobody is free, a bot sits down after about twenty seconds, so an empty queue is never a wasted evening. Play a friend with a room code, unrated, even or with a handicap. Five ranked games set your rank; until then you are in placement, because fewer than five is not enough to tell you what you are. MADE TO BE READ Every piece can wear a movement guide on its face, so you never wonder how the knight jumps. Move notation in Western letters or Japanese figures. Share any game as KIF. A piece reference and a castle guide are one tap away. Landscape layouts for tablets. In English, Japanese and Turkish. THE CASTLES Mino, Yagura, Anaguma. Walking your king into a castle is the first real skill in shogi, and the app is named after it. Progress lives on your device. No account needed to start.

Ratings & Reviews

  • This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.

- Handicap games with friends: pick a handicap and who gives it. The side that gives it plays with fewer pieces and moves first. - The review, rebuilt around the board: the move, why it mattered and the better move sit on one card under it, and the graph has its own row. Tap it to jump to a move, drag to scrub. - After a game, Review the game analyzes every move by itself if you are online and the engine is free. Older games have an Analyze game button. - Levels 9 to 12 are now each a real step up from level 8. - Openings, mating patterns, six more castles, impasse, handicap games against the bot, your own mistakes as puzzles, and an optional daily reminder. - Tsume: 166 problems whose starting position had two unpromoted pawns of one side on a file (nifu) were removed. - Fixed: the analysis panel on an iPad held sideways, a freeze during analysis, and a crash when reviewing a game started from an earlier review.

Version 1.1.4

The developer, Ataberk TUMAY, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Used to Track You

    The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:

    • Location
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Location
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

Accessibility

The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More

Information

Seller
Ataberk TUMAY
Size
117.6 MB
Category
Board
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 2 more
  • English, Japanese, Turkish
Age Rating
4+
Copyright
© 2026 Ataberk Tümay
  • Developer Website
  • Privacy Policy

    • More by Ataberk TUMAY

    You Might Also Like