Weekly Challenge 104: Don't Drop

Win a game of Shogi vs @PS-Greedy-Two-Move where you never drop a piece onto the board from your hand.

Adjudication Criteria:
1. Fewest moves (plies) in overall game
2. Earliest Entry

Something like this: 69 plies

playstrategy.org/HzQU9ZvR

1

now 58 plies

playstrategy.org/KWNxBF6lm5on

1

No April Fool's this time?

14

You can solve this endgame:

playstrategy.org/study/HNX6L4uE

@Jisu101 I'm really glad playstrategy doesn't celebrate that day when everyone is pregnant, everyone is getting married/divorced and every site introduces some dumb feature

Entries for Weekly Challenge 104 has closed. Thanks to all users who participated.

The winner is @woll who managed to win a game of Shogi against @PS-Greedy-Two-Move without dropping a piece on to the board in 29 moves (58 ply) in the following game: playstrategy.org/KWNxBF6l

Users are still welcome to attempt this challenge and post answers here, but the winner has been fixed. The next challenge can be found here: playstrategy.org/forum/weekly-challenges/weekly-challenge-105-outnumbered-pawns