Shogi appears to have come easy to Sota Fujii, who recently set the all-time record with 29 consecutive professional wins, but the 14-year-old's rise in the highly competitive world of Japanese chess was anything but black and white.The shogi prodigy's move into and through the professional ranks has set off an unprecedented craze in Japan, even among those unfamiliar with the traditional board game.With Fujii's achievement, it appears a cloud has finally been lifted from over a shogi world that was rocked by allegations last fall that one of its top players used software assistance to chea…READ FULL ARTICLE
