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  11 <H3><A NAME="SEC9">The opening setup</A></H3>
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  18 The opening setup for shogi is as follows:
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  21    9    8    7    6    5    4    3    2    1
  22 +--------------------------------------------+
  23 | wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL |  a
  24 +--------------------------------------------+
  25 |    | wR |    |    |    |    |    | wB |    |  b
  26 +--------------------------------------------+
  27 | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP |  c
  28 +--------------------------------------------+
  29 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  d
  30 +--------------------------------------------+
  31 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  e
  32 +--------------------------------------------+
  33 |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |  f
  34 +--------------------------------------------+
  35 | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP |  g
  36 +--------------------------------------------+
  37 |    | bB |    |    |    |    |    | bR |    |  h
  38 +--------------------------------------------+
  39 | bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL |  i
  40 +--------------------------------------------+
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  45 Here, "b" stands for "black" and "w" stands for "white", so
  46 that, for instance, "bL" means "black lance".  The numbers above the
  47 files and the letters to the right of the ranks represent the most
  48 common notation system used for shogi by westerners (the Japanese also
  49 use Arabic numerals for the files but use Japanese numerals for the
  50 ranks).
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