It's strange.
Why are most of shogi's pieces designed to fight in a short distance?
Well, that’s what makes shogi interesting and hard. It isn’t all that strange as a mate is still possible. Also developing pieces is much harder which I like a lot about shogi.
The presence of drops makes current Shogi piece power level acceptable. Try playing Chess with drops for a taste of what Shogi would be like with long-range pieces.
@LWEkb Are you referring to crazyhouse chess?
@hydrophilic
GrandHouse has a huge 10x20 board with lots of long range horseys and like shogi you can drop back captured pieces.
@hydrophilic Crazyhouse is similar, but I was thinking of simply introducing the drop rule to standard two-player chess. The result isn’t unplayable, but you’d probably feel the pieces to be overpowered.
#6 introducing drop rule to standard 2-player chess is crazyhouse (at least as per lichess rules lichess.org/variant/crazyhouse )
Ah, I've confused Crazyhouse and Bughouse.
@LWEkb Bughouse???
What's that?
A four-player variant for two teams where players on the same team can gift captured opponent pieces to each other, Wikipedia has the details.