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I guess it makes sense from a programmer's perspective - the pieces of different sides are actually different images, after all...

While I like the aesthetics of kanji, and easily remembered the pieces after a couple of games, they do scare people off. It’s probably one of the reasons why I can buy Go boards and pieces in my town…

I agree that moving signs are ugly. I was actually thinking of total adaptation similar to https://luffykudo.wordpress.com/2021/05/10/chess-themed-shogi-westernized-shogi-japanese-chess/ , maybe with …

To popularize Shogi among Euros and Americans, maybe we need a greater variety of chess-like Shogi sets? I have no issues with kanji, but it’s a major thing that scares people off.

You’d think that casual players would feel pressured by short time controls - casual chess players, in my experience, play without any time controls at all, with chess clocks being evidence of a profe…

Shogi Wars is a strange app, with inability to play games with a time control larger than 10 min/game, and distracting animated backgrounds. Is this the way Shogi is usually played in Japan?

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.

Ah, I've confused Crazyhouse and Bughouse.

@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 overpower…

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.