Kyoto shogi is a modern variant of shogi, the Japanese form of chess, invented by Tamiya Katsuya in 1976. Two players face each other on a very small board of five ranks by five files, and each side has only five wedge-shaped pieces: a king, a gold general, a silver general, a tokin and a pawn. Its distinctive rule is that a piece never stays in one form. Every time a piece moves it is turned over, so an unpromoted piece promotes and a promoted piece reverts. A tokin and a lance trade places this way, as do a silver general and a bishop, a gold general and a knight, and a pawn and a rook, while the king alone never changes. There is no promotion zone. A captured piece can be dropped back onto the board with either face up, almost anywhere that is empty, even where it can never move again. The aim is the same as in shogi, to checkmate the opposing king. The Ludii portal records it as a modern board game of the war and replacement-capture families.
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Shogi, Games Source Kyoto Shogi game record at the Ludii Portal
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puns in Japanese for words with the same pronunciations but different kanji
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1. Kyoto Shogi game record at the Ludii Portal
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Creation date 1976
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Two players play on a board ruled into a grid of 5 ranks (rows) by 5 files (columns).
Derived From: Shogi, Description
Kyoto shogi is a modern variant of Shogi.
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