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Tai Shogi pictures. Photos of a commercially available Tai Shogi set.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Ben Good wrote on Mon, May 12, 2003 04:24 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
nice pics. how long did that take to set up? and what's that in your hand, tongs? use them to adjust pieces?

📝John Lawson wrote on Mon, May 12, 2003 08:03 AM UTC:
The board is wider than my arms are long, so the tongs helped me position pieces across the board without standing and leaning. It took hours. When I've done this in the past, it took about two hours of steady work, but this time I interrupted the job several times for other household chores. Thankfully, the cats took no interest. Bifocals were the worst impediment.

Emily Taylor wrote on Tue, Jun 18, 2019 07:25 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Very good stuff. I have seen one of these before in person while in Japan and was amazed. Beautiful and fun to play variant. I really like the Taikyoku shogi. I wonder if that george guy makes those too, or even makes these still. 


H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Jun 19, 2019 05:37 AM UTC:

George sadly passed away many years ago, but his widow Angela Hodges is still selling the stuff at that e-mail address. Not sure if they also did Taikyoku Shogi, though.

What, in your opinion, makes it fun to play Tai Shogi? I have never actually played it, but it has always struck me as an extremely tedious variant. it has a royal that is so powerful there is really no hope to catch it short of completely exterminating its army first. And that contains hundreds of pieces. You can ask for a price list.


📝John Lawson wrote on Sun, Oct 13, 2019 11:30 AM UTC:

I still have an old price list, and George Hodges did not make a Taikyoku Shogi set.


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