Sample Shogi Play using Eurasia-Chess pieces

Sample play game with Eurasia-Chess westernized 3D Shogi pieces
(replaying Habu-Katou 1989 famous Shogi game).
You'll notice that :
- pieces are bi-colored in order to allow owner change when captured and then dropped back on board.
- pieces are magnetized, and promoted when placed upon a gold disc
- Silver Piece design is having a silvered moon on its top (moon is the alchemist symbol for Silver), and is vertically notched.
- Gold general is having a golden top, with a shape similar to Chess Queen.
- Lance Piece is rather a Canon (that fits well the forward direction move), in order to fit as well Chinese Chess using the same Piece

You'll find more info on http://www.Eurasia-Chess.com

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• EurasiaChess
• Shogi
• SamplePlay
• Japanese
• Chess

[eurasiachess]

@plaaitaekaat

... How about using some other shapes than staunton

Well, in fact, I'm currently working on it:

eurasia-chess com /AsianChessmen.jpg

And here is also some interesting shapes:

google on japanese polychrome carved wood figural shogi set

[plaaitaekaat]

i don't like the idea of westernizing everything

i never see an orientalized version of western chess

(i.e. making them look like disks and engrave chinese characters on them)

we asian learn your culture as it is

so when you learn ours, try to learn it the way it is

you just have to memorize a few characters

[eurasiachess]

@plaaitaekaat

Well, this westernized adaptation is a good way for Western people to discover Asian chess.

Sometimes, people won't make the first step to learn during one week all asian chess symbols; and such adaptation is a powerful way to promote Asian chess. No doubt that if western people like such asian chess, they will move to traditional pieces set.

Besides, I like the idea of making Asianized pieces sets for European Chess... I already made some prototypes some years ago...

[eurasiachess]

@plaaitaekaat

The important is not the shape of the pieces (we can also play with starwars/egyptian figurine in chess, with same pleasures as with staunton shaped pieces), but the game itself, and the ability to play with a wider range of players.

Don't you want to play with western people? do you think they are already widely open to play directly with asian symbols pieces? I don't think so. Let's show the similitudes between chess game cousins, promote and make people discover asian chess

[abaiyo1]

Habu vs. Katou?

[eurasiachess]

Sorry for the orthograph; We can sometimes see this orthograph, but your version seems to be the more usual. That has been corrected.

You can also see commented play (kid=9815): youtube /watch?v=s5JF89Ayzyg

I used this very famous game (1989) to present an innovative westernized way of playing with 3D chessmen, that can help to popularize Shogi to western countries.

[JJTheBigDog]

if you'd stand at the other side of the board your arm would bother less.

[hoskinsds]

gold swing at 3:15

[spazitude80]

how can I get one of these

[thanksforyouruploads]

@eurasiachess

yes, i agree.

but please hide your red-neck thinking...

asian chess?

"international chess" is rooted in india or middle east...

there's chinese chess and korean chess and japanese chess, i.e. shogi.

asian chess? which one? ...

[shogi4fun]

@plaaitaekaat

Knowing to search for 國際象棋 it's much easier to find western chess in Cina.

Still found a lot of western equiment.

Maybe the writer of the book was wrong. But this was many years ago, when internet wasn't born.

Maybe also western chess wasn't popular then in China. And maybe today China like to show, compare with westerners, there ability. And to play tournaments in western world, you need to learn using western equipment.

[shogi4fun]

@plaaitaekaat

I can't speak any Chinese at all.

Sorry about that link, I wasn't observant. I thought about it, because putting pieces between the lines.

Giving links on youtube is not easy (filtered) and an other one uses UNICODE. But I remember tinyurl, so try this one: tinyurl dot com/5r5gee3

It's not easy to find western chess in chinese language, instead of Xiangqi.

This book I've told says, chinese use kanji for westernchess, so we can use symbols for xiangai.

BTW: I PREFERE ONLY KANJI !!!

[plaaitaekaat]

@eurasiachess

btw I have another suggestion.

How about using some other shapes than staunton?

The staunton shapes are easy to recognise, of course.

But we can make it look more Japanese, with some other creative designs.

No characters, of course, but other designs.