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I am very impressed by H.G. Muller's graphics for Shogi variants. On looking at them I had an intuitive idea of how they move and when I checked with Roger Hare's page most of my guesses were proved right. For the first time it occurs to me, seeing the pieces in place with their moves obvious, that Chu Shogi might have been an influence on the design of Okisaki Shogi. I am even able to notice that the two middle pieces of the back rank are reversed in the diagrams here and on Roger Hare's page - something that I would easily have missed in two diagrams both using Japanese characters even with the help of recurring characters such as gyo (mover), sha (chariot), and sho (general). Are these two alternative arrays, or is one of them in error?