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Mitregi. Shogi variant with more powerful diagonal pieces. (10x9, Cells: 90) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Jun 2, 2004 03:01 AM EDT:
Michael Howe's dislike for my piece names is a matter of taste. What
grates for me is giving the same name to very different pieces, and a
forward-only piece IS very different from its symmetric version. The
2nd-rank pieces in Mitregi are placed at their FIDE intervals. An obvious
further variant would have Knights in the Occidental sense, perhaps
promotable to Gnu, in front of the Mitres, and I would wish to call those
and those alone Knights rather than go down the Shanghai Palace road of
multi-purpose piece names.
	As for not being self-evident, did anyone have trouble understanding
Stripe in the comment originally mentioning it?
On a positive note, I look forward to Shin Shogi.