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-<H3><A NAME="SEC11">Drops</A></H3>
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-When a player captures a piece, that piece is not removed from play.
-Instead, it becomes the property of the capturer and can re-enter play
-by being placed on (almost) any vacant square during the player's move.
-This is known as a "drop" and counts as a full move (in other words,
-you can either move a piece on the board or drop a piece onto the board
-during your move, but not both). All pieces drop in the unpromoted
-state. Pieces may be legally dropped in their promotion zone, but they
-do not promote on that turn.
-
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-There are several restrictions on drops:
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-
-
-<OL>
-
-<LI>A pawn may not be dropped onto a file if there is already an
-
-unpromoted pawn belonging to the same player on that file. It is legal
-to drop a pawn on a file which contains a <EM>promoted</EM> pawn belonging
-to the same player, however.
-
-<LI>A pawn may not be dropped to give immediate checkmate on the
-
-move. A pawn is, however, permitted to be moved on the board to give
-immediate checkmate. This is a curious rule, and if anyone knows the
-reason for it I would appreciate it if they would contact me and explain
-it to me :-)
-
-<LI>A pawn or piece may not be dropped onto a square from which they
-
-would have no legal move. This means that pawns and lances may not be
-dropped onto the last rank, and the knight may not be dropped onto the
-last or second-to-last rank.
-
-</OL>
-
-<P>
-It is entirely permissible (and often advisable) to drop a piece or pawn
-between one's King and an attacking ranging piece. For this reason,
-the final checkmating move is nearly always an attack on the King from
-an adjacent square (except for an attack by a Knight).
-
-
-<P>
-Captured pieces are said to be pieces "in hand".
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+<H3> 2.1.2 The opening setup </H3>
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-The drop is the primary distinguishing feature of Japanese chess, shared
-with no other popular chess-type game. It gives shogi a very aggressive
-quality, and dramatically increases the number of possible moves once a
-few pieces have been captured. Another interesting feature of shogi is
-that exchanges complicate play rather than simplifying it (as in
-international chess), because of the drop rule.
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+The opening setup for shogi is as follows:
+</P><P>
+
+ 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| | wR | | | | | | wB | | b <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | c <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| | | | | | | | | | d <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| | | | | | | | | | e <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| | | | | | | | | | f <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | g <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| | bB | | | | | | bR | | h <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+ <BR>
+| bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL | i <BR>
++---------------------------------------------+
+</P><P>
+
+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).
+</P><P>
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