Resources for Western Players

As an - let me say - advanced beginner from Europe I really like the option to play with a western style piece set here on lishogi, but it is quite disappointing, that most resources on the internet regarding Josekis or the different castles and similiar were only available on asian piece sets, what really hinders an improvement of skills. I assume, that this quite an obstacle for Western players to get deeper into the game.

Or did i missed a good source or possibility to get that knowledge without the cumbersome way to learn the original asian piece set?

You could check out some resources that lishogi has provided for users. Most seem to be in English lishogi.org/ resource (broke the link cuz there was an error).

I think this is a fallacy - sitting down and learning the kanji (and, you are not really learning the meaning of the kanji, only the way the pieces move) is not cumbersome at all. It might be a hindrence to try out the game in the first place, but after having played for a while with international pieces, the transition should not take long. Even better if you make some blunders while doing it!

When I started I printed this great summary of the game rules and piece movements and had it nearby: www.shogi.or.jp/event/english-pamphlet.pdf

It was nerve wracking at first, but now it is no problem at all.

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I agree with @cjames. The problem is that most of us learnt chess when kids and it was just fun to learn that this baluster like figure, we call pawn, move one square forward and captures in the diagonal, the queen, this pepper grinder like figure moves in all direction, etc. It's just the association of a figure with a moving pattern. Ok, I concede that the double kanji pieces can be confusing, since the same figures are used in more than one piece type and there is just too much information, but a gold general with one kanji is similar to a house, the pawn can be a hashtag, the bishop a chair, the king a fishbone or whatever you see fit. The fact it that learning to deal with bishop drops after a bishop exchange was way more difficult to me than learning how pieces could move or even their japanese names (not necessary).

The problem is that, as adults, we forget how progressive it was to be able to immediately see the moves pattern for chess, for instance.

This is not to say the westernized set doesn't have a role, even if it is just a psychological one, since most people will just give up at first sight for thinking they have to learn japanese to play.

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I have taken a look at it. Kanji style with one symbol per piece seems to be more accessible than others like origain with two on top of each other. Have to check, which one is commonly used in internet boards.

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The more you delay in learning the Kanji of the Shogi pieces, the more you are missing out on more accessible resources like TsumeShogi (Checkmate puzzle) books that are free online. Like this one, for example: book.mynavi.jp/files/user/shogi_news/free/9784839960384/index.html?page=1

It's certainly a barrier to start learning the kanji, but every journey moving forward starts with the first step!

Edit:
Also the Lishogi default set of Ryoko pieces work perfectly fine as a single kanji set that's not confusing to players

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I use single character pieces, and that seems to be the most common for charts and diagrams and such.

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