Shogi Victory!

Well, I'm through with Interhouse stuffses. I've done my bit.

Officially, I've played IChess (team 1st place) and Shogi (team 1st place, individual second) and submitted a rather lousy creepypasta-esque entry for IHC Photo Essay.

Shogi was excellent. After a little luck and talking, BW got to sit out for the first round of Shogi, until 4:15+, so I was just able to sprint over from Math to the comp lab. We had a nice team of 5, 3~4 of whom could play Shogi at at least a half-decent level, giving us a huge edge over other houses, which seemed to have one main player and a bunch who learnt the moves the day before/the hour before.

Of course, there were exceptions. HH didn't seem to have specialised Shogi players, while MT's "chess sense" was through the roof, sufficient to almost clinch first although their players almost literally "learnt the moves yesterday".

"Chess sense" appears to be an extremely strong weapon. If one plays I/CChess/Weiqi, then usually one can pick up the other forms of chess faster than average. The basic principles of material, position and calculation usually hold true, as do sharp tactical senses.

Anyway, big thanks go out to the BW team, those who set up the BW team, and the MR team for beating MT in the last round to give BW the win. Yay.