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Just notation rules and comparisons here for now. Other things can be added later.
 

Piece Name

TSA

Wiki

PBeM

.Bishop :

.B

.B

.B

.Bishop General :

.BGn

.BG

.BG

.Blind Tiger :

.BT

.BT

.BT

.Copper General :

.C

.C

.C

.Chariot Soldier :

.ChS

.CS

.Ch

.Dog :

.Dg

.D

.Dg

.Drunk Elephant :

.DE

.DE

.DE

.Dragon Horse :

.DH

.DH

.DH

.Dragon King :

.DK

.DK

.DK

.Fire Demon :

.FiD

.FD

.Fi

.Free Eagle :

.FEg

.FE

.FE

.Free King :

.FK

.FK

.FK

.Ferocious Leopard :

.FL

.FL

.FL

.Gold General :

.G

.G

.G

.Great General :

.GGn

.GG

.GG

.Horned Falcon :

.HF

.HF

.HF

.Iron General :

.I

.I

.I

.King :

.K

.K

.K

.Kirin :

.Ky

.KR

.Ky

.Lance :

.L

.L

.L

.Lion Hawk :

.LHk

.LH

.LH

.Lion :

.Ln

.LN

.Ln

.Knight :

.N

.N

.N

.Pawn :

.P

.P

.P

.Phoenix :

.Ph

.PH

.Ph

.Rook :

.R

.R

.R

.Reverse Chariot :

.RC

.RC

.RC

.Rook General :

.RGn

.RG

.RG

.Silver General :

.S

.S

.S

.Soaring Eagle :

.SE

.SE

.SE

.Side Mover :

.SM

.SM

.SM

.Side Soldier :

.SSo

.SS

.SS

.Vice General :

.VGn

.VG

.VG

.Vertical Mover :

.VM

.VM

.VM

.Vertical Soldier :

.VSo

.VS

.VS

.Water Buffalo :

.WBf

.WB

.WB
Tenjiku Notation
The three methods of piece representation shown are
"The Shogi Association", "Wikipedia Tenjiku rules"
and "Richards PBeM server".

This site will now use the PBeM representation.
All other sources (bar Wiki and PBeM) use TSA rules. My personal choice would have been to use the Wikipedia system, all upper case, but this still has conflicts with piece names in other shogi variations.

Representing promoted pieces.
Promoted pieces are written as the un-promoted rank preceded by a plus sign. So a promoted Dragon King would be shown as +DK and not SE (in any form).
Note TSA uses new piece legends for pieces introduced for the first time after promotion. eg. a promoted Chariot Soldier (+Ch) becomes HT (Heavenly Tetrarch).

How moves are represented:
Piece [departure] action destination [action] [result] e.g.
BG-8k the BG moves to 8k
BGx8k the BG captures a piece on 8k
DK-4d+ the DK moves to 4d and promotes
Ch9hx5d= the Ch on 9h captures the piece on 5d and does not promote
WBx6c* the WB captures the piece on 6c then burns itself
+Chx3e! the +Ch captures the piece on 3e without moving
SEx4j-5i the SE captures the piece on 4j then moves to 5i
Fire Demon, notation for burning pieces.
The common method is to list squares on which the pieces are burnt. This seems unwieldy, for example
 Fix5nx!4n,4o,6o,6n,6m,5m.
The method recommended on this site is to use ! followed by the number of pieces burned (if greater than one). The above move would then become Fix5nx!6 and if the example had been Fi-2gx!3f that would become Fi-2gx!. This seems far more practical when using a notation while playing over the board or even typing or sending a move.

Most (or all) of the games shown on this site prior to Oct 2005 uses TSA piece names. (If I get round to it I may edit or remove them someday)
From October onwards the PBeM notation will be used. Multiple burns will still be written !number.