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Shogi is a game information page. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, Oriental, ShogiBased.

Shogi. The Japanese form of Chess, in which players get to keep and replay captured pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)

Author: Hans L. Bodlaender and Fergus Duniho.

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Shogi is the variant of chess that is most widely played in Japan, where the game has reached great heights. There are many organized events, professional players with a detailed rating system, etc. Shogi is known to many as "Japanese Chess". Shogi received a small but enthousiastic group of players in the west. People often praise the game for its strategic and tactical possibilities, and state that the game is more complex to play than "regular" chess. Due to the rule that taken pieces can reappear as reinforcements of the opponent, draws are not common. <b>Recognized Variant of the Month for February 2002.</b>

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The board used for this game has 9 row(s), 9 column(s), 81 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

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A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sun, Sep 24, 2023 05:22 PM UTC in reply to Bob Greenwade from Sat Sep 23 03:18 PM:

In H. G. Muller's system, a range 2 slider just has an empty bulge. for sliders with range 3 or more, this is typically denoted by a plus sign or a shortened radial line, with the plus getting closer to the center the longer the range gets if that option is used. If you wanted a better system, you could have line perpendicular to the bulge for every square after the second square in that direction.

Bob Greenwade wrote on Sat, Sep 23, 2023 03:18 PM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 02:54 PM:

However, this comes at the cost of having more moves to remember (14 in total).

This is precisely the reason that I love the Mnemonic images so much. I'd love to have them for Short Sliders, if I ever get around to making an ID for it.

A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Sep 23, 2023 02:54 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Shogi is perhaps one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. It's drop rule lets players come back much more easily, while the forward bias negates the advantage to defense such a rule would normall imbue. However, it is not without it's problems. The biggest one is easily the fact that the vast of the pieces promote to a Gold equivalent. Although this is a very rare situation, when a lot of Gold/Gold equivalents appear on thee board, it can easily turn Shogi into a very drawish Checkers game, and if an impasse occurs, this amplifies the problem even more.

Seireigi fixes the aforementioned problem to an extent by making all promotions unique. This also helps mitigate impasse situations, as more pieces are capable of stopping a King from reaching the opponent's camp. However, this comes at the cost of having more moves to remember (14 in total).

A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Jun 10, 2023 03:56 PM UTC:

It should be noted that stalemate is a win for the stalemating player. It's extremely rare due to the drops, but it is possible.

JoeyJoeyJoey SmithSmithSmith wrote on Fri, Mar 12, 2021 08:25 PM UTC:

This page should be updated. There's better, modern options for playing shogi, with a computer and other people. 
lishogi.org/
syougi.qinoa.com/ja/game/

I'd also strongly recommend the piyo app, which has many different difficulty levels.

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