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Post #685915

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darth_ender
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How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4
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26-Jan-2014, 9:38 PM

Okay, but just a reminder, every piece promotes every single time you move it.  So you move your pawn one step and it becomes a rook.  You then move the rook and it reverts back to a pawn.  Same with all the other pieces.  When you drop a piece, you may drop it as either the stronger or weaker value.  You may even drop it on a square where it can no longer move (for instance if you wanted to block another piece).  The king of course never promotes.  The T stands for Tokin, which is the Japanese name for promoted pawn.  It's exactly the same thing as a Gold General, just a different character.  When writing piece notation, write the initial of the piece that begins the move, not the piece that it ends as.  I recommend that when you move the piece, you mark what it turns to so that there is no confusion (probably by typing the + and the character of the new face value).  It's not necessary, but is useful.  Hmmm...can't think of anything else.

I will go first this time, but just to get the game going sooner instead of waiting.  Hope you don't mind.  G-4v+N

Let me know if there's confusion.