RicOlie_2

P-1h

Oops! I'll edit the latter since I believe January 31 is correct.

I'm guessing that it is a European or British thing to use leftie that way. As far as I am aware, leftie and left wing are synonymous where I live.

How exactly does this work? You offer a move which would be made my one of your pieces or your opponent's?

BT-6i

P-3h

February 4:

A.D. 1784: First unmanned hot air balloon flight takes place in Ireland.

A.D. 1859: Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt.

The codex was once the complete text of the Bible, but half the Old Testament had been lost at the time of its discovery.

A.D. 1847: The first American telegraph corporation is established in Maryland.

A.D. 1865: Robert E. Lee is named Commander-In-Chief of the Confederate Army

BT-7j

Ph-8i

I'm curious to know why the creator of the Chu Shogi file I'm using decided to portray the phoenix as an elephant head and the drunk elephant as a circle with a sword in its centre.

DH-5i

P-7g

GB-4g

P-8g

Ln-6h

P-7h

P-5h

P-6g

He means in your thread. I don't think you need a 40,000 post thread to have it considered the "official podcast thread"!

P-6h

Fair enough. I suppose I was mostly worried about losing half my pieces before I would be able to do anything, since I began a game against a computer and was reduced to shreds before I finally got the opposing lion. I just think the game revolves too much around the lion, but maybe it will be different playing a human player.

Do you think we could try playing a game without the lion? It's a really destructive and hard-to-kill piece, I think, so it would be nice to get a good grasp on the way the other pieces move before having such a powerful piece in play. We'd still be able to get a lion through promotion of our kirin, but it wouldn't come into to play early in the game. I'm fine with playing with it if that's what you want, but I'd rather save it for a second game.

I think I've got this mostly figured out. It'll take a while for me to figure out any kind of strategy, but here goes.

p-8h

I'm interested in Chu Shogi too. I've already downloaded the Zillions file, so I'm ready to go. I don't think I'll be able to make a mock up quite yet anyway, because I've got to take care of a crabby baby and finish up some schoolwork. Chu Shogi shouldn't be too hard to manage while I'm doing that.

How do the annotations work for this game? There are a lot of pieces with two-word names and pieces that share the same initials.

I think I'll mock something up on an excel spreadsheet. I'll have to take another look at the different moves. I think I have the general idea, but I'm not familiar with all the pieces.

So I figured. Alright, good game. What do you want to do next? Ito Shogi?