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Drops

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-When a player captures a piece, that piece is not removed from play. -Instead, it becomes the property of the capturer and can re-enter play -by being placed on (almost) any vacant square during the player's move. -This is known as a "drop" and counts as a full move (in other words, -you can either move a piece on the board or drop a piece onto the board -during your move, but not both). All pieces drop in the unpromoted -state. Pieces may be legally dropped in their promotion zone, but they -do not promote on that turn. - - -

-There are several restrictions on drops: - - - -

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  1. A pawn may not be dropped onto a file if there is already an - -unpromoted pawn belonging to the same player on that file. It is legal -to drop a pawn on a file which contains a promoted pawn belonging -to the same player, however. - -
  2. A pawn may not be dropped to give immediate checkmate on the - -move. A pawn is, however, permitted to be moved on the board to give -immediate checkmate. This is a curious rule, and if anyone knows the -reason for it I would appreciate it if they would contact me and explain -it to me :-) - -
  3. A pawn or piece may not be dropped onto a square from which they - -would have no legal move. This means that pawns and lances may not be -dropped onto the last rank, and the knight may not be dropped onto the -last or second-to-last rank. - -
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-It is entirely permissible (and often advisable) to drop a piece or pawn -between one's King and an attacking ranging piece. For this reason, -the final checkmating move is nearly always an attack on the King from -an adjacent square (except for an attack by a Knight). - - -

-Captured pieces are said to be pieces "in hand". + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +
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2.1.2 The opening setup

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-The drop is the primary distinguishing feature of Japanese chess, shared -with no other popular chess-type game. It gives shogi a very aggressive -quality, and dramatically increases the number of possible moves once a -few pieces have been captured. Another interesting feature of shogi is -that exchanges complicate play rather than simplifying it (as in -international chess), because of the drop rule. - -

- [Contents]   [Back]   [Prev]   [Up]   [Next]   [Forward]   +The opening setup for shogi is as follows: +

+ + 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
++---------------------------------------------+ +

+ +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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