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39 <H2> 2.1 The rules of shogi </H2>
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43 Shogi is a two-person abstract strategy board game with full information
44 (i.e. all pieces and moves are visible to both players at all times).
45 It is in the chess family, being descended from the same ancestral game
46 as international chess: the Indian game of Chaturanga.  The two players
47 are referred to as "Black" and "White", with Black moving first
48 (unlike in international chess, where White moves first), and with
49 movement alternating between the two players.  Note that "Black" and
50 "White" are just names; the pieces are not colored.  Instead, they are
51 flat, wedge-shaped pieces which point towards the opponent.  The
52 identity of a given piece is indicated by two Japanese Kanji characters
53 on each piece.  In fact, only the top character is needed to identify
54 the piece and thus only the top character is used in shogi diagrams.  I
55 will use alphabetical equivalents in the diagrams here; to see what the
56 Kanji characters look like, start up xshogi (see section <A HREF="gnushogi_20.html#SEC20">4. xshogi</A>) and compare
57 the starting setup there with the starting setup in this file
58 (see section <A HREF="gnushogi_8.html#SEC8">2.1.2 The opening setup</A>).
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61 The object of the game is to capture the opponent's King.  The board is
62 a grid of 9x9 uncolored squares, and pieces are placed on the squares.
63 Each player begins with 20 pieces, described in the next section.
64 Capture is by displacement, as in international chess.
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68 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_7.html#SEC7">2.1.1 The moves of the pieces</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
69 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_8.html#SEC8">2.1.2 The opening setup</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
70 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_9.html#SEC9">2.1.3 Promotion of pieces</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
71 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_10.html#SEC10">2.1.4 Drops</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
72 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_11.html#SEC11">2.1.5 Winning the game</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
73 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_12.html#SEC12">2.1.6 Draws</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
74 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_13.html#SEC13">2.1.7 Handicaps</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
75 <TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_14.html#SEC14">2.1.8 Notes for chess players</A></TD><TD>&nbsp;&nbsp;</TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
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