Tsume Shōgi Hyakuban Shōbu

Description

Tsume Shōgi Hyakuban Shōbu is less a full shogi game and more a portable tsume-shogi problem collection. The player is given fixed board positions and must find the forced mate sequence. Its development was supervised by the magazine Weekly Shogi.

Despite the title implying 100 battles, it actually contains about 110 problems. These are split across difficulties with 10 introductory problems then a practical set split into 30 beginner, 40 intermediate, and 30 advanced problems. The presentation is very functional: choose a problem, move pieces according to shogi rules, and solve the mate. One small control quirk noted is that promoting a piece requires pressing the Select button, which is the sort of utilitarian interface detail you’d expect from a compact Game Boy table-game release.