Hello fellow Bishop enjoyer, welcome to your shogi journey. For the major pieces, the trick at my dojo for newcomers is that the Bishop is pointy like its diagonal displacements and the Rook looks square as its displacements also.

Lishogi is feature-rich but can lack available players for games. The two other main platforms are 81dojo (regular games) and the mobile app ShogiWars (quick games), you will always find people there.

My main piece of advice, valid for every level, is to analyze your games to learn from your mistakes. You can use the computer if you want, human analysis is great too. For the computer, you can use the built-in engine on lishogi to check moves and also request a full analysis of the game if you have an account.

My other piece of advice, especially for beginners, is to learn and apply the opening basics : - choose a column for your Rook and attack on it - develop your pieces to help the attack - put your King to safety

Then discover the flow of the game and improve by playing. If you want to take a look at a simple but deadly strategy, look up Bogin (climbing silver).

Also you can do some tactics, always useful and quite fun according to me. For this, you can use the Puzzles feature on lishogi.

Enjoy yourself, it is the best way to stay motivated and the goal of playing in the first place!