H. G. Muller wrote on Mon, May 23, 2022 06:20 AM UTC:
My guess is that forbidding kings to face each other would not help. Exposed kings get checkmated very quickly in Shogi. So when the manage to cross it is always surrounded by a group of friendly pieces, from which they are chased out, and then again get new pieces dropped around the to survive.
I could imagine that the Kamikazes present the same problem as Pawns, when you are allowed to drop more than one of those in the same file.
My guess is that forbidding kings to face each other would not help. Exposed kings get checkmated very quickly in Shogi. So when the manage to cross it is always surrounded by a group of friendly pieces, from which they are chased out, and then again get new pieces dropped around the to survive.
I could imagine that the Kamikazes present the same problem as Pawns, when you are allowed to drop more than one of those in the same file.