Compatible emulators

Synopsis

Shogi is a popular Japanese board game, similar to chess. Two players face each other across a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks by 9 files yielding an 81 square board. In Japanese they are called Sente (first player) and Gote (second player), but in English are conventionally referred to as Black and White, with Black the first player. The board is nearly always rectangular, and the rectangles are undifferentiated by marking or color. Pairs of dots mark the players' promotion zones. Each player has a set of 20 flat wedge-shaped pentagonal pieces of slightly different sizes. Except for the kings, opposing pieces are undifferentiated by marking or color. Pieces face forward by having the pointed side of each piece oriented toward the opponent's side – this shows who controls the piece during play.

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