![]() ![]() So most of the 64 piece types have quite ordinary Rook or Bishop moves, and many are in fact 'steppers', ![]() Some pieces even break the left-right symmetry, which the FIDE Pawn still respects. ![]() The number of piece types can be so large because the pieces in general lack the 8-fold symmetry that all orthodox Chess pieces (except Pawn) have.īy giving the pieces different ranges in the various directions this extraorinarily large number of piece types can be constructed. The vast majority of piece types have only stepping or (limited-range) sliding moves,Īs oblique leapers are virtually non-existent in Shogi, give or take an occasional Knight. Which was the dominant form of Chess in Japan in those days. On a 17x17 board each side starts with 96 pieces of 64 different types, making this double the size of Chu Shogi, ĭai Dai Shogi is one of the 'Large Shogi variants' of which records have been preserved since medieval times, and large it is indeed. Please report anything needing fixing with a comment to the homepage. The site has moved to a new server, and there are now some issues to fix. ![]()
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