I think I like Ito Shogi as it is now. I still want to work on a couple more 1-dimensional versions, hopefully this weekend, and PM them to you. I'll incorporate some flying generals into one of those. I think you should leave them out of your final version of regular Ito Shogi though. They could be useful for keeping the game moving along, but the kind of thing that happened this game can happen in any Shogi game, so I wouldn't worry about trying to eliminate the possibility of it occurring. :)

It was a lot of fun working on it though, and it was interesting to play on a unique board like that. Now that we're mostly done with it, I'm ready for another game of regular Shogi and I'll make the first move since I probably won't be able to make another until evening.

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