検討将棋盤 app for iPhone and iPad

KentouShogiban is the App for examining positions of Shogi Game. You can record your moves with notes. You can also playback a Shogi Game record.


[Features]
・Playback a game record
---Pasting copied game record
---Selecting a saved game on Saved Game List
---Selecting a shared game on the Shared Game List registerd by other users
---Selecting a public game on the Public Game List
---Selecting a game record file in the iTunes shared folder
---Selecting a game record file in the Dropbox folder
・Flip board
・Display the board coordinate axis labels
・Examine any positions of the game which you are playing back
・Record your note to each moves while examing
・Examine and record some branches(variation of the moves)
・Edit state of the game freely with no restrictions
・Import game record files from your strage
---Format：KIF, KI2（".kif", ".ki2"）
---Encode：UTF8, Shift-JIS
---Zipped files are acceptable（".zip"）
・Saved Game: You can manage game records storing in the local database by using folders
・Export saved game
---Format: KIF, CSA
---Encode: UTF8
---Output To: Dropbox, E-mail, Pasteboard
・Copy/Paste moves using your paste board
---Format：KIF, KI2, CSA, USI
・Copy/Paste position using your paste board
---Format：KIF, CSA, USI
・Share Games: you can share games with other devices or other users
・Import game records of public major games from its site easily
・Visit public major game sites easily
・Retrieve and playback your game records on Shogi club 24
・Retrieve and playback game records of Shogi Wars

[Support Device]
4 inches or bigger

[[Basic Usage]]
[Views]
There are three views. The switch button to shift views is available on top of the each views.

・Playback View
Playback View is just for playing back a game record. You can see this view when the App is launced or you pase a game record text to the App by tapping the paste menu.

・Examine View
Examine View is for examinig the position of the game moving pieces by yourself. You can examine some various set of moves as brances writing notes. When you move on this view from the Playback View, the position of the game on the Playback View is copied and it appears on the Examine View. You can save your examined moves and notes.

・Free Edit View
Free Edit View is for freely replacing pieces regardless of the Shogi rules. You can use this view when you want to reset the location of some pieces at once. Additionally you can use this for making Shogi Problems. When you want to make the answer of a Shogi Problem, move on to the Exmine View and register the answer moves and save it. If you save the position of a Shogi Problem on the Free Edit View with the Handicap option as "Composed Shogi Problem", you can use filter option on the Saved Game List to distinguish Shogi Problems

[Operations on the Examine View]
・Move a piece
Pick up the piece you want to move by tapping, then tap the cell on the board or the piece stand.

・Make a branch(variation of the moves)
Change to the position of the game, then press the Add Branch button(+).

・Shift branchs
The branch button appears at the right side of the move on the move list. By pressing it, the move list will shift the branch move. If there are some branches on a move, the popup memu will appear by pressing the branch button. You can choose the branch you want to shift on the menu. To go back to the previous branch, press the back branch button.

・Remove a branch
By pressing the remove branch button(-), the current displaying branch will be removed.

・Solve easy Shogi problem
Press the Checkmate button on top of the move list.

[Operations on the Free Edit View]
・Turn over a piece
Swipe: swipe on a piece up or down.

・Rotate a piece
Swipe: swipe on a piece left or right.

[Search] (on Saved Game List, Shared Game List)
・AND filter: filter strings divided by white space (ex. 名人戦 羽生vs森内：名人戦 羽生 森内)
・EXCLUDE filter: `! mark (ex. not include `NHK string and 羽生vs森内：!nhk 羽生 森内）
・designate the number of moves (ex. less than 100 moves：m＜100 )