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Many old Shogi variants are larger than the 9x9 game, the best known of these is Chu (middle) Shogi, played on an 12x12 board. Chu Shogi is still played a little in Japan and has a few players in the West.
AKA "Middle-Shogi" or "Lieutenant General Chessman" (Japanese)
 

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The pieces, how they move, promote and are set up for play.

Various enclosures
 (castles) in diagrams
some proverbs etc.

Mainly games but may be a good page to stuff other things

Links to many other
Chu Shogi sites etc.
+ some mini revues


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A new entry at the bottom of the Chu links page.
Chu shogi 101
by Sean Humby.


Chu Shogi has been played since the 14th century and was the most popular and exciting form of Shogi then.

In a 15th century diary, Yamashina Tokitsugu wrote that he played 82 games of Chu Shogi.

After WW2 Chu Shogi activity decreased considerably, despite the efforts of Oyama to revive it.

There are over 200 historical
Chu Shogi mating problems.
These can be found in the
"Middle Shogi Manual",
most with solutions.
Two of these problems
are shown on the right
(in the manual all problems are
given using the Forsythe notation).

Below is a couple of easy problems for beginners.
(not from the list above)




Mating problems.


Problem 1 (B1)
Both problems from George Hodges Middle Shogi Manual.


Problem 2 (C10)
   

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Here is the opening of a game played in 1970 by the Shogi master
Oyama Yasuharu
1. Ln-6h Ln-7e
2. P-8h P-5e
3. Ln-6g P-8e
4. P-10h P-10e
5. P-5h P-3e
6. P-3h P-6e
7. DH-11h DH-11e
8. Ph8i DH-2e
9. Ph10g GB-9f
10. DH-2h VM-11b
11. DK-6k P-6f
12. Ln-5i L-7f
13. P-7h Ph-5d
14. Ky-7i DK-4c
15. DK8j-7k C-4b