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🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sun, Feb 25, 2024 07:09 PM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 05:25 PM:

From your answer, I gather that you're just using these pieces for testing purposes, but you do not normally use them for playing Shogi. Speaking as someone who normally does use western pieces for Shogi, I find these pieces inadequate. They are inconsistent in design, they make little distinction between Gold and Silver Generals, and they make no distinction between different promoted Knights, Lances, and Silver Generals. Also, they come in different colors instead of appearing on wedges with different orientations.

The most accessible western set I use is based on the Chess Motif font and is featured on the Shogi page here. The other one, which is entirely my own design, is featured on Cut-Out Symbolic Shogi Pieces.