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Shō shōgi (小将棋 'small chess') is a 16th-century form of shogi (Japanese chess), and the immediate predecessor of the modern game. It is played on a 9×9 board with the same setup as in modern shogi, except that an extra piece is placed in front of the king: a 'drunk elephant' that promoted into a prince, which acts like a second king.
Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China. Xiangqi is in the same family of games as shogi, janggi, Western chess, chaturanga, and Indian chess.
Called Taishi, promoted Drunk Elephant in Chu shogi. Prince (Ouroboros King) 1 : WF = K The Ouroboros King Mann that can make inmortal any royal pieces if they are being 3 or less squares away vertically and horizontally from the Prince. Prince (Fairy) 1X,~ 1/2: FN: Fairy Chess problems (Jelliss, Simple Chess Variants) Combination of Ferz and ...
The Sho Shogi Zushiki presents sho shogi (both with and without drunk elephant), wa shogi (27 pieces per side on a 11×11 board), chu shogi, dai shogi, tenjiku shogi (78 pieces per side on a 16×16 board – perhaps invented by a Buddhist monk trying to revive a form of dai shogi), [6] dai dai shogi, maka dai dai shogi, and tai shogi.
By the 16th century the game had taken a form closer to the modern game: it was played on a 9×9 board with the same setup as in modern shogi except that an extra piece (an elephant) stood in front of the king. This form of the game is known as sho shogi (小将棋), which means "small shogi". (While 9×9 may not seem small, despite the name ...
The elephant in Chinese xiangqi has the same move, but is not able to jump over an intervening piece or pawn. The elephant in Korean janggi has the same move, but outward from an initial orthogonal step, also without the ability to jump over an intervening piece or pawn. One step forward or one step in any diagonal direction.
A 9×9 version of this game known as "Dobutsu shogi in the Greenwood" (in Japanese: おおきな森のどうぶつしょうぎ ōkina mori no dōbutsu shōgi, lit. Animal Shogi in big forest), which is identical to shogi, has been launched. The game features new pieces and since the board is large, the movements of the Elephant and Giraffe ...
The immobiliser from Baroque chess immobilises any piece next to it; the fire demon from tenjiku shogi and poison flame from ko shogi capture any enemy pieces that end the turn next to them. The teaching king and Buddhist spirit from maka dai dai shogi are "contagious"; any piece that captures a teaching king or a Buddhist spirit becomes one ...