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Tori Shogi is a Zillions-of-Games file. It is categorized as: Two dimensional, Small board, Oriental, From ancient times, ShogiBased. This item is located on a site outside of chessvariants.org.

Tori Shogi. Bird Shogi.

Author: Eduard Werner. Inventor: Ohashi Soei.

Notes

Tori Shogi is the smallest of the ancient games of the Shogi family. The game dates from the end of the eighteenth century and is attributed to Ohashi Soei, a famous master of Shogi. Tori Shogi literally means 'Bird Chess' and all of the pieces are named after birds.

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The board used for this game has 7 row(s), 7 column(s), 49 cells/squares.
This game is a 2 player game.

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• Bird Shogi. Tori Shogi, or Bird Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on a 7 by 7 board. (7x7, Cells: 49) Inventor: Ohashi Soei.
• Tori Shogi. A variant of Japanese Chess on a 7 by 7 board. (Link to Roger Hare's shogi site.).
• Tori Shogi. Play this small Japanese Shogi variant on Jocly. Author: H. G. Muller. Inventor: Ohashi Soei.
• Tori Shogi pictures. Pictures of a commercial Tori Shogi set. Author: John Lawson. Inventor: Ohashi Soei.

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