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RicOlie_2
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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23-Jan-2014, 4:19 PM

OK, here goes:

If you had dropped your pawn, the board would look like this (your pieces in bold):

---G-
S-KS-
-G---
PPP-G
S-KS-
-G---
captured pieces (yours/mine): PP/P

Then I would have taken your pawn (in square 4d, not the one you dropped).

---G-
S-KS-
-G---
PSP-G
--KS-
-G---
captured pieces (yours/mine): PP/PP

I would expect you to (a) take my piece, (b) move another piece, or (c) move your gold general out of the way. If (a), I would have taken your gold general with my king. If (b), I would have taken your gold general. If (c), I would have continued with my S-2d move. In all three scenarios, I would accomplish my goal. Here is what the board would have looked like after each scenario:

(a (after two moves*)):

---G-
S-KS-
-----
PKP-G
---S-
-G---
captured pieces (yours/mine): PPS/PPG

(b (after two moves*)--for the sake of example, I moved the silver general on the right):

---G-
S-K--
-S-S-
P-P-G
--KS-
-G---
captured pieces (yours/mine): PP/PPG

Continuing with (b (for two more moves), and assuming you took my silver general with your silver, I would have dropped a pawn in front of it (4d):

---G-
--K--
-S-S-
PPP-G
--KS-
-G---
captured pieces (yours/mine): PPS/PG

(c (after two moves*)--assuming you moved your gold general straight backwards):

---G-
SGKS-
-----
PSPSG
--K--
-G---
captured pieces (yours/mine): PP/PP

Hopefully that all makes sense. I think that we should continue on with my alternate move (S-2d) now that you know what I was going to do, unless you don't think the outcome will be any different if I continue as originally planned.