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Shogi. The Japanese form of Chess, in which players get to keep and replay captured pieces. (9x9, Cells: 81) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Joe Marchak wrote on Sat, May 18, 2002 09:51 AM EDT:Good ★★★★
I've been playing shogi for years here in Japan, both with people and on 
the computer.   There was a program 'xshogi' which was maintained until
1994/1995 and is still available through GNU.   Is anyone looking at 
picking up this package and updating it for Linux?

Steven wrote on Sat, May 18, 2002 10:21 AM EDT:Good ★★★★
Check out www.debian.org. They have xshogi running for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. You <i>should</i> be able to compile it for any Linux distribution if you have all of its dependencies. Here's the link to the Debian page for xshogi http://packages.debian.org/stable/games/xshogi.html.

Liz wrote on Sat, Jun 22, 2002 01:45 AM EDT:Good ★★★★
A great site! I have never played Shogi but was researching it as part of a Japanese assignment ( I am an Australian year nine student). Thankyou for providing me with a better knowledge of the game and its history.

Anonymous wrote on Tue, Jul 16, 2002 04:20 AM EDT:Good ★★★★
I think some of your graphics for the promoted pieces are mixed up (I.E. Promoted rook as the same Graphic as the Promoted Silver General, which, is not right)

Lachlan wrote on Mon, Jul 22, 2002 12:39 AM EDT:Good ★★★★
I noticed that the notation you provide for the pieces differs from that used in Japanese game scores; for example the opening position of the White bishop is given as 'b2' whereas in Japanese notation this position would be given as 2b. I think it's important to use the Japanese notation so that people can use game scores from competitions in Japan.

Sam wrote on Wed, Aug 14, 2002 09:56 AM EDT:Excellent ★★★★★
Nice page it really helped me learn to play the game.

AWJ wrote on Fri, Sep 6, 2002 03:37 PM EDT:Good ★★★★
Good overview of the game, but the images of the pieces need to be much larger--the Japanese characters on each piece are no more than undistinguishable four-pixel squiggles.

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