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Mini Shogi Win/Master

Updated 1 year ago by Luckless

Here is a picture guide for winning Mini Shogi on all 4 difficulties. The only one that isn't completely consistent (because it's totally random) is the Normal CPU so it may require the Undo button. Hard and Amazing are the same 5 moves every time and Impossible has some variation but all end in 7 moves.

If you are looking to use this for All Games Win or All Board Games Win I suggest the Hard CPU. It's only 5 moves and there's no undo use.

#Normal

The Normal CPU can be beaten in as little as 3 moves, however, it depends on what moves the CPU plays and although the board is small, they still have many options available to them, some of which we don't have backup strats for. Therefore, in longer runs you would technically often beat them in 3 or 4 moves but it's slower than the 5 move strat for Hard/Amazing (which I'll show later) due to undo use. Of course if you are doing IL's then Normal is the way to go, so let's get into this!

I think the best way to go about showing this is to show the Checkmate positions we are aiming for first, from there we can reverse engineer how to achieve Checkmate based on the CPU moves.

##1. Bishop supports Rook

##2. Rook supports Gold OR

Both of these strategies start with the same first move: Move your Bishop diagonally up-left 2 squares so that it's between your Pawn and their Gold.

Now observe what the CPU does, the above image has all of the moves I've seen them do as arrows. Red Arrow = Undo (the backup strat would be slower than using Undo) Green Arrow = Move your Rook left 1 square (aiming for Checkmate 1) Yellow Arrow = Take their Gold with your Bishop (aiming for Checkmate 2)

#Hard/Amazing

Hard and Amazing are together in this because the same exact strat beats both difficulties, the CPU will respond with the same moves!

Move your Gold General diagonally up-right then up Move your Bishop diagonally up-left so it's next to your Gold Take their Gold with your Gold Place the Gold you just took from the sideboard next to their King to deliver Checkmate.

#Impossible

Impossible we have to do a slight variation on our strat, you have to be careful not to fall into doing the same 3rd move as Hard/Amazing because the CPU will slow you down!

The CPU will always respond with the same moves until after your 5th move and then the RNG varies after that.

Move your Gold General diagonally up-right then up Move your Silver General diagonally up-left Move your Pawn up one Take the newly promoted Bishop with your Rook

Here's where the CPU can make a change, observe which piece it moves above and adjust accordingly: Silver Move (Green Arrow) = Use Their Bishop Against Them (with no further RNG) Gold Move (Yellow Arrow) = Take Their Gold Early & Prepare For More RNG

##1. Silver Move (Green Arrow) Drop the Bishop from your sideboard onto the square between their Silver and Pawn (in front of their Gold and diagonal to their King) Take their Gold with your Gold, Checkmate.

##2. Gold Move (Yellow Arrow) Take their Gold with your Gold

Simple enough so far, right? Well get ready because the CPU has 13 different possible moves after you take their Gold! This is why it took me so long to finish this guide. Don't worry though, there's good news; 9 of the 13 are various places it will drop a Bishop and all 13 allow you to Checkmate next turn! Here I've color coded them based on what your next move is:

I'll show them in images below but here's the moves real quick: Green = Move your Gold next to the King Red = Drop the Gold from your sideboard next to the King Yellow = Move your Gold diagonal to the King (next to the Pawn) Orange = Drop the Gold from your sideboard diagonal to the King (next to the Pawn) Blue = Move your Rook next to the King and promote

##2a. Useless Bishop Drop (Green) Move your Gold next to the King, Checkmate. (in one case, taking his Bishop)

##2b. Blocking Bishop Drop (Red) Drop the Gold from your sideboard next to the King, Checkmate.

##2c. Silver Move (Yellow) Move your Gold diagonal to the King (next to the Pawn), Checkmate. (in one case, taking his Silver)

##2d. Silver Takes Your Gold (Orange) Drop the Gold from your sideboard diagonal to the King (next to the Pawn), Checkmate.

##2e. Pawn Move (Blue) Move your Rook next to the King and promote, Checkmate. If you don't promote, the King has a square that the Pawn was previously on to run to. If this happens, a backup is: Drop the Bishop from your sideboard to the right of your Silver, Checkmate.