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Modern drunk elephant shogi. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jun 17, 2010 09:00 PM UTC:
This looks like it may be a good game. I assume that a captured Crown Prince demotes back to a Drunk Elephant. Is that correct?

💡📝Daniil Frolov wrote on Fri, Jun 18, 2010 07:22 AM UTC:
Yes, it demotes as all other pieces.

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Sun, Jul 11, 2010 11:16 AM UTC:
http://tamago915.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2006/11/post_048f.html

In 1707, a Shogi book recorded one shogi variant: modern shogi with Drunk
Elephant.

http://tamago915.cocolog-nifty.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/3_1.png

The piece in 9vii is promted Drunk Elephant:Crown Prince.

http://tamago915.cocolog-nifty.com/.shared/image.html?/photos/uncategorized/4.png

Crown Prince in 1i was checkmated.



http://park6.wakwak.com/~k-oohasi/shougi/koumoku/koumoku01.html

More information. Please see the bottom-right corner of picture on abovemented page.

💡📝Daniil Frolov wrote on Sun, Jul 11, 2010 01:50 PM UTC:
Thanks. I anticipated that similar game might already exist. By the way, wich rules differs from my version?

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Sun, Jul 11, 2010 06:02 PM UTC:
You are welcome.

The detailed rules are still unknown.

(zzo38) A. Black wrote on Fri, Feb 11, 2011 07:10 PM UTC:
I have idea of variant of variant: That a captured king (but not crown prince) is removed from game entirely.

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