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-<H2> 2.1 The rules of shogi </H2>
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-Shogi is a two-person abstract strategy board game with full information
-(i.e. all pieces and moves are visible to both players at all times).
-It is in the chess family, being descended from the same ancestral game
-as international chess: the Indian game of Chaturanga. The two players
-are referred to as "Black" and "White", with Black moving first
-(unlike in international chess, where White moves first), and with
-movement alternating between the two players. Note that "Black" and
-"White" are just names; the pieces are not colored. Instead, they are
-flat, wedge-shaped pieces which point towards the opponent. The
-identity of a given piece is indicated by two Japanese Kanji characters
-on each piece. In fact, only the top character is needed to identify
-the piece and thus only the top character is used in shogi diagrams. I
-will use alphabetical equivalents in the diagrams here; to see what the
-Kanji characters look like, start up xshogi (see section <A HREF="gnushogi_20.html#SEC20">4. xshogi</A>) and compare
-the starting setup there with the starting setup in this file
-(see section <A HREF="gnushogi_8.html#SEC8">2.1.2 The opening setup</A>).
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-The object of the game is to capture the opponent's King. The board is
-a grid of 9x9 uncolored squares, and pieces are placed on the squares.
-Each player begins with 20 pieces, described in the next section.
-Capture is by displacement, as in international chess.
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-<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_7.html#SEC7">2.1.1 The moves of the pieces</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
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-<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_11.html#SEC11">2.1.5 Winning the game</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
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