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Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ i /, [1] Japanese:), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi. Shōgi means general's (shō 将) board game (gi 棋).
The most famous of these disrupted sets, Yoko Ono's White Chess Set (see Yoko Ono's Myspace), in which all the pieces are white on a totally white board (with a brass plaque underneath reading 'Chess Set for playing as long as you can remember where all your pieces are' [14]) was originally made for Ono's exhibition at Indica Gallery, London ...
Gunjin Shōgi or Japanese Military Chess (軍人将棋), also known as Marching Chess (行軍将棋, Kōgun Shōgi), is a two-player board game, intended for children. Although the pentagonal pieces are shaped like those of Shōgi , the objective is to capture the other player's flag, more similar in gameplay to Stratego (1942) and its ...
Taikyoku shōgi (Japanese: 大局将棋, lit. "ultimate shogi") is the largest known variant of shogi (Japanese chess).The game was created around the mid-16th century (presumably by priests) and is based on earlier large board shogi games.
Tenjiku shogi (天竺将棋 tenjiku shōgi, "Indian chess" or 天竺大将棋 tenjiku dai shōgi "great Indian chess") is a large-board variant of shogi (Japanese chess). The game dates back to the 15th or 16th century and was based on the earlier chu shogi , which itself was based on dai shogi .
Dec. 2—HIGH POINT — When most people see a chess set, they see the individual pieces — the king and queen, the bishops, the knights, the rooks and the pawns. When Larry Cates sees a chess ...
The Chess Variant Pages rule this as a loss for the stalemated player, for definiteness. As an alternative, there is the "bare king" rule. A historic description of chu shogi mentions, "When pieces are gone, and there are only the 2 kings, one can mate only if he has a promoted gold". [9]
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