Spring is here, a time of change and a new starts. Here are a few hobby ideas designed to make it that little bit easier for beginners.

Improve your gameplay

Shogi, known as Japanese chess, is a notoriously complex game to learn, especially for non-Japanese. The use of kanji to identify pieces can be confusing and not only are all the pieces always in play, but on average they also have more than double the number of possible moves those in of Western-style chess. Then there's the fact that many of the pieces can be flipped over and "promoted" to move differently.