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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: - - - -
-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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-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. - -
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+ 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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+| wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a
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+| | wR | | | | | | wB | | b
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+| wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | c
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+| | | | | | | | | | d
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+| | | | | | | | | | e
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+| | | | | | | | | | f
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+| bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | g
++---------------------------------------------+
+| | bB | | | | | | bR | | h
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+| 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). +