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+<H2> 2.1 The rules of shogi </H2>
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-The opening setup for shogi is as follows:
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-<PRE>
- 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| | wR | | | | | | wB | | b
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | c
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| | | | | | | | | | d
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| | | | | | | | | | e
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| | | | | | | | | | f
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | g
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| | bB | | | | | | bR | | h
-+--------------------------------------------+
-| bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL | i
-+--------------------------------------------+
-</PRE>
+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>).
+</P><P>
+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.
+</P><P>
+<BLOCKQUOTE><TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=0>
+<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>
+<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_8.html#SEC8">2.1.2 The opening setup</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
+<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_9.html#SEC9">2.1.3 Promotion of pieces</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
+<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_10.html#SEC10">2.1.4 Drops</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
+<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>
+<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_12.html#SEC12">2.1.6 Draws</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
+<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_13.html#SEC13">2.1.7 Handicaps</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
+<TR><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"><A HREF="gnushogi_14.html#SEC14">2.1.8 Notes for chess players</A></TD><TD> </TD><TD ALIGN="left" VALIGN="TOP"></TD></TR>
+</TABLE></BLOCKQUOTE>
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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).
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