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  2. History of shogi - Wikipedia

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    A trio of shogi games – small, middle, and large – continued to be the norm in the 15th century. Chu shogi was the most popular and held in the highest esteem, and sho shogi regarded as trivial, until the introduction of drops in the latter. [3] Dai shogi seems to have been seen as too complicated. [1] (Indeed, the version of dai shogi that ...

  3. Dai shogi - Wikipedia

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    Dai shogi (大将棋, large chess) or Kamakura dai shogi (鎌倉大将棋) is a board game native to Japan. It derived from Heian era shogi, and is similar to standard shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and game play. Dai shogi is only one of several large board shogi variants.

  4. Shogi - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Dai dai shogi - Wikipedia

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    Dai dai shōgi (大大将棋 'huge chess') is a large board variant of shogi (Japanese chess). The game dates back to the 15th century and is based on the earlier dai shogi . Apart from its size, the major difference is in the range of the pieces and the "promotion by capture" rule.

  6. Chu shogi - Wikipedia

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    Chu shogi (中将棋 chū shōgi or Middle Shogi) is a strategy board game native to Japan. It is similar to modern shogi (sometimes called Japanese chess) in its rules and gameplay. Its name means "mid-sized shogi", from a time when there were three sizes of shogi variants that were regularly being played.

  7. Heian shogi - Wikipedia

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    Heian shōgi (平安将棋, "Heian era shogi") is a predecessor of modern shogi.Some form of the game of Chaturanga, the ancestor of both chess and shogi, reached Japan by the 9th century, if not earlier, [1] but the earliest surviving Japanese description of the rules dates from the early 12th century (c. 1120, during the Heian period).

  8. Big two - Wikipedia

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    Big two (also known as deuces, capsa, pusoy dos, dai di and other names) is a shedding-type card game of Cantonese origin. The game is popular in East Asia and Southeast Asia, especially throughout mainland China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Macau, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. It is played both casually and as a gambling ...

  9. Dou dizhu - Wikipedia

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    Thanks to the debut of dou dizhu online, the game has become more widespread and is now a national game in China. its popularity increased substantially, with players on one system doubling in two years, from around 50,000 players in December 2002 to 100,000 in 2004 [4] and 17,900,000 players being the loyal fans of the casual game while dou ...