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!

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:

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.

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.

The new adventure starts in Tokyo!