fukuhara: There is indeed a site that offers Chu Shogi, as well as Dai Shogi & Tenjiku Shogi ... http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv
If you ever wish to play, my userid there is tkr101010 as well.

The game courier on Chess Variants also offers Chu Shogi, but the interface isn't as nice, http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/index.html


I just want more sites to offer more variants :) BrainKing's got the nicest interface and plenty of people play shogi here anyway, so adding Chu seems logical.

Does anyone think that Chu Shogi will ever become available for play on this site?

jadarite: I think they'd look better that way too. Especially the red for the promoted sides, even if the background color of the pieces didn't get changed.

jadarite: There are already two sizes of Kanji piece sets available for use here on BrainKing. You can switch to using them from the Settings page.

AbigailII: I'm not sure why BrainKing names them that way. Personally I wish that 'japanese chess' would get renamed to 'shogi'. On the settings page, the tab for shogi setting is called 'shogi'. More consistancy in the naming would be nice.

Of course, I also wish that when one is using the japanese piece set and has the opportunity to promote, that the piece displayed above the board would also be shown in the japanese piece set rather than the 'western/symbolic' set. And that it wouldn't always say "Click on a piece you want to promote the pawn to." even if you're moving a knight, rook, bishop, etc, and not a pawn. Also, that gives the impression that a piece can be promoted to more than one promotional value (like a chess pawn), whereas each shogi piece obviously only promotes to one thing and one thing only per piece. (Hint hint Fencer)

ughaibu: I'm confused by the king capture you mentioned. Are you talking about when someone has mad an illegal move and accidently left their king in check? Or are you talking about where white (for example) as gotten black into a position that would be checkmate in western chess, then black makes a move, then white captures the king?

Please excuse my butting in to your conversation.

Your student is japanese? Have you thought about origami? I don't know how many students you see at a time, but maybe orgami might give her a bit of home, and for the other students something interesting to see and learn. :) A traditional crane is easy to do.

I vote for Chu Shogi :)

Thank you! :)

Hi Fwiffo :)
On one of my Yahoo pages I have some Shogi links listed that I've found useful. Check 'em out ...
http://www.geocities.com/phoenix_tkar/Shogi.html