darth_ender said:

Well, I haven't messed up that setup on my board if you want to continue playing, but I'd almost rather skip the mess with the first four pieces. I guess if you want to take back your last move, we could go from there with the alternate arrangement of those pieces.

I think we should spend some more time looking at the game and then start over.

JEDIT: Of course then we'd have two gold generals. I wish I'd played this with someone when I first came up with these rules, but I was all by my lonesome without any shogi partner :'( *sniff*

See my above post for my solution, of course.

I honestly think we will need to start over. We haven't gotten too far, and I may want to adjust the other pieces for now as well. And I do need to work tomorrow. What I will do is spend a few more minutes seeing if I like a different setup (probably similar to what you have already done). I will send you my Excel spreadsheet (probably in the morning), either to play with or to rearrange your own. Sorry about the bad news and lack of progress.

Can attachments be sent via PMs, or do we need each other's emails?

I have three variations of the board mocked up, because as I said above, I'm not replacing them as I go, which will be useful in the future, I think. I'm OK with ironing out the flaws, so don't apologize. The longer we spend fixing it up, the more fun it will be to play.