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Silver General. Shogi piece that moves one square diagonally, or forward.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Anonymous wrote on Sat, Mar 27, 2004 01:33 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
The Silver General moves the same as the Elephant in Burmese Chess. It's an interesting piece, more powerful in attack, sometimes a bit awkward in retreat.

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Mar 24, 2010 05:15 PM UTC:
Elaphant in Makrook also have same moves. There are also two variants af chaturanga: in one of them elephant jumps two diagonaly, in second variant it have SG's moves.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, May 6 05:22 PM UTC:

I have replaced the Ideogram-generated image of a figurine Silver General with a new image I made with ChatGPT of an illustrated Silver General piece. Here is the old image:

AI concept art of what the Silver General could look like as a figurine piece.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, May 6 05:42 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 05:22 PM:

After replacing the old image, I replaced the new image with an even newer image, this time overwriting it. I made the Silver General look more Japanese, and I increased the size and lightened the color of the alchemical symbol for silver, ☾, so that it stands out better if the image is made small enough to fit on a 12x12 Chu Shogi board.


🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, May 6 09:12 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 05:42 PM:

I do not recommend using ChatGPT. I have been trying to make a few more changes to the image I posted, but when I ask for a change, it fails to otherwise keep things the same, and it sometimes forgets about other changes I already made. So even when I get one thing changed, I then have to try to fix the mistakes it has introduced, and while doing that it makes more mistakes and so on. It is not like computer programming where fixed mistakes stay fixed. Ideogram's Canvas editor would be better to use, because it will let me select an area and make changes to that without changing the rest of the image. However, I'm subscribed to ChatGPT right now, and I can't use the Canvas editor without subscribing to Ideogram.


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