i guess i'll just throw a general rec for ryuuou no oshigoto/ryuo at work. its a shogi LN with lolis (got an anime, not very good quality but i liked it tbh) but hear me out first if you're not into that
usually with this sort of thing its basically cute lolis hanging together with some kind of activity as the side dish (which is perfectly fine, i will not condemn that sort of thing ever) but ryuuou is the opposite. lolis and lolicon jokes are very much the side dish to the two volumes i read in english so far, and its honestly some rlly intense shogi. its a story about people not just being into a weird hobby, but trying to make their living off of it. its about a real life field of very passionate people who honestly just sit down and move pieces of wood on the board but it captures why shogi is so charming so well. it gets into its characters' heads, it shows why people want to win, why they want to keep living off shogi and what kind of pressures they face as a professional (aspiring or actual) in that field and god its so intense. i've only played casual shogi but i admire how much love this has for the game and the people playing it. and it still throws in dozes of fairly predictable romcom hijinks and loli jokes and i dont know, i like that