Tokyo!

Many things happened and I did not have time to write a lot.

I have lost the next round of Ladies Meijin against Aikawa ladies 1 dan. It was a big blow and made me reserved for the next week.

But let’s talk about the good things!

I have finished my master thesis and graduated successfully!

Photo with my seminar group and our teacher

Since research about shogi gave me many ideas for the promotion, I have bought shogi.pl and created English and Polish version of the website. There will be a three step shogi course, collection of kifu and in April I hope we will launch online shogi magazine in English. But until now the biggest project was sending shogi sets abroad. Here is a photo of a special one:

Special shogi board with autograph

The biggest news is that now I have moved to Tokyo. As a parting-gift from Yamanashi friends I have received the most special tsumeshogi. They are created by Kitta san to resemble katakana of my name カロリーナ.

Tsume shogi in shape of Karori-na

It was indeed a very special present. The tsume shogi themselves are a real problems to solve, no cheating!

In March I have moved to Tokyo. I live much closer to my workplace and I hopefully will have more opportunities to get a job or to find an opponent to play. This would mean that all of the time I spent on transiting between Yamanashi and Tokyo, I can use for something else. The minus is, NOW I really live ON MY OWN. I have to pay rent. But I should be fine! Of course I hope to visit Yamanashi to teach shogi there at any occasion. Indeed, Kofu city and my friends living in Yamanashi are dear for me.

Time for cherry blossom!

The new adventure starts in Tokyo!