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-Sho Shogi means 'small Shogi', and was one of the smaller variants of Japanese Chess,
-living in the shadow of its far more popular big brother, Chu Shogi ('middle Shogi').
-Until people invented piece drops for the captured pieces.
-The small game was much more suitable for playing with piece drops,
-and a small adaptation (eliminating the Elephant) made it into the modern game.
-While Chu Shogi is in fact utterly unsuitable for playing with drops.
-And in the end, the drops won the day!
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-e1, e8: King
- Click on a piece below to see its moves Sho Shogi means 'small Shogi', and was one of the smaller
+ variants of Japanese Chess, living in the shadow of its far more
+ popular big brother, Chu Shogi ('middle Shogi'). Until people
+ invented piece drops for the captured pieces. The small game was
+ much more suitable for playing with piece drops, and a small
+ adaptation (eliminating the Elephant) made it into the modern
+ game. While Chu Shogi is in fact utterly unsuitable for playing
+ with drops. And in the end, the drops won the day! e1, e8: King Click on a piece below to see its moves :
-Sho Shogi is not a standard variant in XBoard.
-It has to be played in XBoard by selecting regular Shogi
-after having set the holdings-size override in the New Variant dialog to 0, to disable piece drops.
-This is not all, however; the pieceToCharTable has to be changed to tell XBoard that the Elephant participates.
-This can unfortunately only be done through command-line options.
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-It is therefore best to put all options needed to massage XBoard into playing this variant in a settings file sho.xop.
-On install .xop files are associated with XBoard, so clicking them would start XBoard with the options in that file.
-You could then set everything in the file needed to start in Sho-Shogi mode:
- : Sho Shogi is not a standard variant in XBoard. It has to be
+ played in XBoard by selecting regular Shogi after having set the
+ holdings-size override in the New Variant dialog to 0, to disable
+ piece drops. This is not all, however; the pieceToCharTable has
+ to be changed to tell XBoard that the Elephant participates. This
+ can unfortunately only be done through command-line options. It is therefore best to put all options needed to massage
+ XBoard into playing this variant in a settings file sho.xop. On
+ install .xop files are associated with XBoard, so clicking them
+ would start XBoard with the options in that file. You could then
+ set everything in the file needed to start in Sho-Shogi mode:Sho Shogi (precurser of modern Japanese Chess)
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-variant shogi
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-pieceToCharTable "PNBRLSE..G.+.++.++Kpnbrlse..g.+.++.++k"
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-Since the game is just a subset of regular Shogi, legality testing can remain on.
-You could also specify your favorite Sho-Shogi engine with -fcp in that file.
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-Of course there will always be people that prefer an oriental look, with pentagonal kanji tiles. -XBoard comes with a set of kanji pieces in the 'themes/shogi' sub-directory of its data directory -(e.g. /usr/local/share/games/xboard). -You can select that as -pieceImageDirectory (-pid for short) from the command line, or from the View -> Board dialog. -You would also have to tick 'Flip black pieces Shogi style' there (or use the option -flipBlack true) -to make sure the pieces won't go upside down when you flip the view. -
--In stead of Queens you have Silver and Gold Generals, and Lances. -The Knight only has the two forward-most moves of a FIDE Knight. -Pawns capture straight ahead. -There is no castling, Pawn double-push or e.p. capture. -Other pieces than Pawns also promote. -The promotion zone is three ranks deep in stead of one. -You have an Elphant that can promote to a second King. -
--Most pieces are quite slow, or not manoeuvrable at all, and their practical value is very dependent on how far they are from the Kings. -
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+Since the game is just a subset of regular Shogi, legality +testing can remain on. You could also specify your favorite +Sho-Shogi engine with -fcp in that file. + +Of course there will always be people that prefer an oriental + look, with pentagonal kanji tiles. XBoard comes with a set of + kanji pieces in the 'themes/shogi' sub-directory of its data + directory (e.g. /usr/local/share/games/xboard). You can select + that as -pieceImageDirectory (-pid for short) from the command + line, or from the View -> Board dialog. You would also have to + tick 'Flip black pieces Shogi style' there (or use the option + -flipBlack true) to make sure the pieces won't go upside + down when you flip the view.
+ +In stead of Queens you have Silver and Gold Generals, and + Lances. The Knight only has the two forward-most moves of a FIDE + Knight. Pawns capture straight ahead. There is no castling, Pawn + double-push or e.p. capture. Other pieces than Pawns also + promote. The promotion zone is three ranks deep in stead of one. + You have an Elphant that can promote to a second King.
+ +Most pieces are quite slow, or not manoeuvrable at all, and + their practical value is very dependent on how far they are from + the Kings.
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