• lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        9 months ago

        I don’t even take lessons yet but I play shōgi (Japanese chess) and therefore have contact with native speakers and a lot of material is in Japanese (not to mention the very pieces are kanjis). So I did what everyone would do: I downloaded a bunch of apps from F-Droid to learn Kana and Kanji and procrastinate on deepening my knowledge in the future

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            9 months ago

            Forget the one on the left. It hasn’t been played by any significant number of people for literal centuries. Today’s shōgi is 9x9 and has 8 district pieces which isn’t much more than western chess with 8x8 and 6 distinct pieces

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              9 months ago

              Okay but have you considered that dai shogi has a drunk elephant piece which promotes to prince which, naturally, becomes a new king should your current one be captured?

              (I’ve only actually played standard modern shogi, but reading about these bonkers historical variants is a lot of fun.)