How about a game of Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi? Now playing Shogi4 — Page 61

Whoever wrote this game gave the pieces far too long descriptions, as I can't actually read the complete moves for all of them.  I'm also having a harder time remembering what the pieces do.  But I feel silly, because the Flying Falcon is a bishop-like piece, and the Cloud Eagle is capable of ranging orthogonally forwards and backwards.  So there is a bit more range than I gave the game credit.  I've got to try to memorize these names a bit more.  Doesn't help that they are all such silly animal names, so it's hard to remember which silly animal does what.

SP-3d

So there is a bishop-like piece! I didn't notice it until now. I have to hover over all the pieces to find the one you want to move every time, but hopefully I'll get the pieces and their moves figured out soon. A lot of them are the same as regular pieces (like gold and silver generals), so it's a bit of a bother to remember new names for old pieces, and with an asymmetrical board, there are almost twice as many pieces to learn as there would be otherwise.

SP-8g

Yeah, it's pretty hard to keep straight.  I may need to print off a page of piece moves for this one.  The Chu Shogi pieces I used made it easy to keep things straight with the little diagrams on each piece.  This is very difficult to remember.

P-8e

CK-8j

SP-8f

CK-9j

SPx8g

BD-11j

SP-8h

SW-8j

FG-5b

CK-10k

SP-8i+

SWx8i

I'll miss you, Swallow's Wings...

Well, not sure yet.  TF-6e

You didn't fool me. ;)

TF-7h

I think you might have been egging me on there a bit yourself, buddy.  I did try to get your SW, and I almost fell for it, and only happened to get lucky and not make my original move.  Don't act so innocent with me ;)

TF-7f

:)

TF-6g

TFx6g

I had no idea how close I was to checkmate until I took a look at the RR's promoted value...

SW-8j

Sorry bud.  I didn't realize either till I tested out the promotion as well, then realized that only your Treacherous Fox would protect you were I to get my Running Rabbit safely on 8i and promoted it.  I don't think you can stop me this game.  But I'm happy to play again, since I don't think we've had a single drop.

TF-8i#

Well, I see no point in continuing. Would you rather backtrack or start over?

Probably start over.  I think we both have a better grasp on piece moves now, and I think we'd both play differently.  Let's play Wa again.

I'll get us going to move things along.  VS-5j

CK-7b

CK-5k