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Maybe sankaku means three angles and, hence, triangle?
Well 'Kaku' means angle, as in Kakugyo, the Bishop's name in Shogi, but what does 'San' mean? Is it Japanese for 3 by any chance?
The Chariot may 'run down' one Soldier, allowing it to capture up to two pieces. Sorry for any confusion. The Chariot's ability to 'run down' an opposing Soldier is similar to the XiangQi Cannon shot using a screen. Except that this particular screen is captured, and it is not necessary that another piece be captured following this.
I haven't played it yet, but the game looks good to me also. There's one thing I think should be added to the rules to clarify the Chariot's power of 'running down' soldiers: it wasn't clear to me whether they could run down any number of soldiers in a line, or only one. From the ZRF it seems to be only one.
It is quite easy to construct a real-world board using cardboard, scissors, straight-edge and a felt-tip pen. The disc can be made from the same material. And the visualization of the Cavalry leap is simply an orthogonal translation to the second cell(a cell which is oriented in a similar manner). For example: /\ /\ /__\/__\ If a friendly piece is at the first, another such translation can be made in any direction. It is not meant to be equivalent to the FIDE leap. Since this is a triangle field, that particular form of leap is not possible. Its similarity to the Ko Shogi Cavalry leap in its ability to use a friendly piece to continue its particular leap.
The triangular cells on this chessboard make it very difficult to work out lines of strategy by yourself, let alone play an OTB game. This means you have to construct the pieces and the board yourself, which in my opinion is more trouble than the game might be worth. And by the way, not everyone understands Shogi. I also found the Cavalry's movement, though meant to be the equivalent of the Knight in FIDE chess, was particularly difficult to visualize.
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