Ed wrote on Wed, Jul 5, 2006 04:33 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I like shatranji (and also makruk-gi) much better than chessgi. I have
wondered how shatranji would play with pawns assigned a promoted value
corresponding to the master-piece of the file instead of the uniform
promotion to general (but the king's pawn would have to be non-royal!).
As to Mr. Gilman's question, doesn't a popular 4-player shogi variant
with a reduced array of pieces on a standard shogi board (Yonin Shogi)
already exist?
A house-rules version of 4-handed chaturanga and Chess of the Four Seasons
that I know replaces the move of the ship/alfil with the move of the shogi
elephant, a move that al-Beruni described as the movement of the piece in
10th-century chaturanga. Both games play much better that way.
As to Mr. Gilman's question, doesn't a popular 4-player shogi variant with a reduced array of pieces on a standard shogi board (Yonin Shogi) already exist?
A house-rules version of 4-handed chaturanga and Chess of the Four Seasons that I know replaces the move of the ship/alfil with the move of the shogi elephant, a move that al-Beruni described as the movement of the piece in 10th-century chaturanga. Both games play much better that way.