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Shogi is a game information page. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, Oriental, Shogi, or Shogi-based.

Shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)

Author: Hans L. Bodlaender.
Web page created: 1996-09-09. Web page last updated: 2002-02-12

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Shogi is the variant of chess that is most widely played in Japan, where the game has reached great heights. There are many organized events, professional players with a detailed rating system, etc. Shogi is known to many as "Japanese Chess". Shogi received a small but enthousiastic group of players in the west. People often praise the game for its strategic and tactical possibilities, and state that the game is more complex to play than "regular" chess. Due to the rule that taken pieces can reappear as reinforcements of the opponent, draws are not common. <b>Recognized Variant of the Month for February 2002.</b>

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The board used for this game has 9 row(s), 9 column(s), 81 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

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Date	Name	Rating	Comment	Edit
Shogi. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)
2009-11-07	Jose Carrillo	None	paper Shogi set: http://www.hollandnumerics.demon.co.uk/pdf/SHOGI_SET.PDF	Edit View [*]
2008-09-10	Rich Hutnik	Good	Shogi is on the XBox 360! I just saw this on XBox Live Arcade. Shotest Shogi has been released for the XBox 360, and able to be obtained through XBox Live. It contains both traditional and symbolic notation. You can learn more on it here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/s/shotestshogixboxlivearcade/ http://previews.teamxbox.com/xbox-360/1917/Shotest-Shogi/p1/ I rate it good, because finally a console gets Shogi.	Edit View [*]
2008-08-06	Charles Gilman	None	My computer cannot read '�K��'. What is the transliteration and translation? This is of interest to me as an authentic Japanese name for the Knight is something that I should add to my Bishogi page. On the unequal-armies Shogi itself, my first instinct is that 2 Knights are no match for 6 pieces includig a Bishop and a Rook. Or is a Knight promoted to something really powerful?	View [*]
2008-07-16		None	Does anyone know '�K��'(Eight directions of honorable hose)? One player must remove his or her four pieces: rook, bishop, and both lances from the setup, and then his or her honorable horses called '�K��' can move as free as knight in Chess. If this player's own honorable horse is captured by the other player, the latter could't move it as knight. If the fomer captures the latter's horrable horse, it could move as knight. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/tetsu/toybox/kapitan/kp016.htm	View [*]
2008-04-19	Brian Guo	None	The board layout is as follows: +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| l \| n \| s \| g \| k \| g \| s \| n \| l \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| \| r \| \| \| \| \| \| b \| \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| p \| p \| p \| p \| p \| p \| p \| p \| p \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| P \| P \| P \| P \| P \| P \| P \| P \| P \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ \| \| B \| \| \| \| \| \| R \| \| +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+ ... [view entire]	View [*]
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