Shogi, also known as Japanese chess, is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess, chaturanga, and Chinese Xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan. Shogi means general's.
The earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century, and spread from China to Japan, where it spawned a number of variants. Shogi in its present form was played as early as the 16th century, while a direct ancestor without the "drop rule" was recorded from 1210 in a historical document Nichureki, which is an edited copy of Shochureki and Kaichureki from the late Heian period (ca 1120).
According to ChessVariants.com, "Perhaps the enduring popularity of Shogi can be attributed to its 'drop rule'; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own. David Pritchard credits the drop rule to the practice of 16th century mercenaries who switched loyalties when captured - no doubt as an alternative to execution."
Senryaku Shougi is a shogi game that features 2 different game modes and there is a 2 player vs mode too. There are also diffferent difficulty levels.
Manufacturer's description:
In conventional shogi games, the skill level of the person who played the game tended to be the level of difficulty in the game against the computer, but in this "strategic shogi", players who had a strategy specific to shogi such as flying between three and silver Is a system that allows you to freely choose and play games, and is designed to make it easy for beginners to enjoy the same strategy as that of high-ranked people.
Features:
- First person perspective.
- 2D graphics
- Cartoon graphics
- Shogi theme.
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