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Ariwara no Narihira (在原 業平, 825 – 9 July 880) was a Japanese courtier and waka poet of the early Heian period.He was named one of both the Six Poetic Geniuses and the Thirty-Six Poetic Geniuses, and one of his poems was included in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu collection.
Shogi notation is the set of various abbreviatory notational systems used to describe the piece movements of a shogi game record or the positions of pieces on a shogi board. A game record is called a 棋譜 kifu in Japanese.
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.
local shogiobject = {}----- internal functions ----- returns a japanese character for a roman letter abbreviation-- called by the shogiboard() function local function piecesymbol (abbreviation)-- the abbreviation argument is a string of 1-3 letters that stand for the English names of the shogi pieces-- the abbreviation is extracted out of a longer string by the processString() function ...
The rules for dropping pieces are identical to those in standard shogi: all dropped pieces must start unpromoted (even if they have been captured as promoted pieces and/or are dropped into the farthest rank); a pawn may not be dropped onto the farthest rank, or onto a square that results in an immediate checkmate; the two pawns may not lie in ...
The three Edo-era sources are not congruent in their descriptions of the pieces not found in smaller games. Apart from its size and number of pieces, the major difference from these smaller games is the "promotion by capture" rule. A more compact modern proposal for the game is called hishigata shogi.
In Pacific Chess (Hawaii, 1971) a piece with Queen-like moves is called the Nobleman. Called Honno or Free King in Chu shogi Queen of the Night [22] ET: n , n~(1/2) (in same direction) QNN: Twenty-first Century Chess (J. P. Jeliss, 1991) Combines the powers of the Queen and Nightrider. Also known as Amazonrider. Querquisite [31]
Taikyoku shōgi (Japanese: 大局将棋, lit. "ultimate shogi") is the largest known variant of shogi (Japanese chess).The game was created around the mid-16th century (presumably by priests) and is based on earlier large board shogi games.