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H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Oct 5, 2018 06:20 PM UTC:

I noticed that the piececlopedia doesn't mention pieces from Shogi variants. Not even iconic ones such as Kirin or Phoenix. Now it would probably be a bad idea to flood the Piececlopedia with the entire zoo of Shogi pieces, as there are more than a hundred, and most are very uninteresting (slightly handicapped Queens or Kings).

Yet I have the feeling they somehow have to be mentioned. Would it be an idea to make a single piece article for the entire set of Shogi pieces that just differ by range in the 8 principal directions? This could be cast in the form of a table that gives the name, (abbreviations of) the variants it appears in, and the eight ranges (in practice 0, 1, 2, 3, 5 or infinite). Special 'keynote' pieces (such as Lion, Hook Mover, Heavenly Tetrarch, Fire Demon) could get their own article.

Every individual piece could then be mentioned in the alphabetical index of the Piececlopedia, e.g. as 'Blue Dragon (Shogi)', but all these would link to the same article.

If we agree that it is a good idea to do this, I would be willing to write the article.


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