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Shogi. Play the Japanese form of Chess, in which captured pieces can be dropped back as your own. (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jan 13, 2005 08:12 PM EST:
I have updated the Shogi presets to spot check, checkmate, and stalemate,
and they can now also enforce the rule against checkmating the King with a
Pawn drop. They can also now use aliases for promoted pieces that each
equal the label for its unpromoted state with a + sign in front.

To see the code behind this, check out one of the presets, such as this
one:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DShogi%26settings%3DJapanese-PNG&submit=Edit

and the include file used for all Shogi presets:

http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/includes/shogi.txt