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+<H3><A NAME="SEC9">The opening setup</A></H3>
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+The opening setup for shogi is as follows:
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+ 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
++--------------------------------------------+
+| wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a
++--------------------------------------------+
+| | wR | | | | | | wB | | b
++--------------------------------------------+
+| wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | c
++--------------------------------------------+
+| | | | | | | | | | d
++--------------------------------------------+
+| | | | | | | | | | e
++--------------------------------------------+
+| | | | | | | | | | f
++--------------------------------------------+
+| bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | g
++--------------------------------------------+
+| | bB | | | | | | bR | | h
++--------------------------------------------+
+| bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL | i
++--------------------------------------------+
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+Here, "b" stands for "black" and "w" stands for "white", so
+that, for instance, "bL" means "black lance". The numbers above the
+files and the letters to the right of the ranks represent the most
+common notation system used for shogi by westerners (the Japanese also
+use Arabic numerals for the files but use Japanese numerals for the
+ranks).
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