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However, this comes at the cost of having more moves to remember (14 in total).
This is precisely the reason that I love the Mnemonic images so much. I'd love to have them for Short Sliders, if I ever get around to making an ID for it.
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Sep 23, 2023 02:54 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Shogi is perhaps one of the greatest games ever invented by humans. It's drop rule lets players come back much more easily, while the forward bias negates the advantage to defense such a rule would normall imbue. However, it is not without it's problems. The biggest one is easily the fact that the vast of the pieces promote to a Gold equivalent. Although this is a very rare situation, when a lot of Gold/Gold equivalents appear on thee board, it can easily turn Shogi into a very drawish Checkers game, and if an impasse occurs, this amplifies the problem even more.
Seireigi fixes the aforementioned problem to an extent by making all promotions unique. This also helps mitigate impasse situations, as more pieces are capable of stopping a King from reaching the opponent's camp. However, this comes at the cost of having more moves to remember (14 in total).
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Jun 10, 2023 03:56 PM UTC:It should be noted that stalemate is a win for the stalemating player. It's extremely rare due to the drops, but it is possible.
This page should be updated. There's better, modern options for playing shogi, with a computer and other people. lishogi.org/ syougi.qinoa.com/ja/game/ I'd also strongly recommend the piyo app, which has many different difficulty levels.
Please do, it is a wonderfull game!
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In H. G. Muller's system, a range 2 slider just has an empty bulge. for sliders with range 3 or more, this is typically denoted by a plus sign or a shortened radial line, with the plus getting closer to the center the longer the range gets if that option is used. If you wanted a better system, you could have line perpendicular to the bulge for every square after the second square in that direction.