Teruichi Aono

Teruichi Aono

Teruichi Aono (青野照市 Aono Teruichi, born January 1, 1953) is a 9-dan professional shogi player.

He has written a number of pedagogical materials that have been translated into English included two books and journal articles as well as numerous Japanese-only materials.

He created a new shogi variant ９マス将棋 kyū-masu shōgi "9-grid shogi" published in 2016 that is useful for teaching the shogi. It uses a 3x3 board and begins with several different start positions in which each player has between 2 and 3 pieces that may or may not be in hand. Promotion is restricted to the last rank on each side. All other shogi rules apply. The game can be thought as a set of tsumeshogi (詰将棋 tsumeshōgi "checkmate") and brinkmate (必死 hisshi) problems.

Bibliography

• Aono, Teruichi (1983). Guide to Shogi openings: Shogi problems in Japanese and English. Translated by Fairbairn, John. 
• Aono, Teruichi (2009) [First published in 1983]. Better Moves for Better Shogi. Translated by Fairbairn, John (2nd ed.). Ishi Press. ISBN 978-4-87187-999-6.