🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 13 Apr 1994, Michael Fitz wrote:

> This month's Kindai Shogi has an article on
> a recent demonstration game of 4-player Shogi.
> A brief summary of the rules is included on
> the next-to last page. Could anybody out there post
> an English translation to the list?

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The rule is: each player puts down the pieces in a pyramid shape
(you need two sets of pieces; see below) and the players take
turns in a clockwise direction for their move. Movement of the
pieces and the promotion rule are identical to those of the
"real" shogi. Check will move the turn to the person whose king
is checked.

As you have three opponents, two of them moving sideways, it is
almost impossible to predict the moves ahead. You are free to
attack any one of the three opponents. If your king is captured
first, you take the last place finish. The next to lose the king
will be the third place. The game will be officially over at this
point. Among the two who survived, the one who captured the king
of one or both of the losers will be the winner. If both
survivors captured the king from one of the losers, the one who
has more pieces at the end will be the winner.

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From the picture in the magazine, I can see that the initial
setup of the pieces is as follows. The setup is identical to all
four players sitting at the four sides of a regular shogi board.

           P
        P  R  P
     S  G  K  G  S

K=King(Oh), R=Rook(Hisha), G=Gold(Kin), S=Silver(Gin),
P=Pawn(Fu). (Bishop, Lance, and Knight are not used.)

Looks like fun. But I have no way of finding out as I don't
know three people who can play shogi here. Too bad.

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 t nagasaki <tn4@columbia.edu>