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H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Jan 3 03:51 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from Tue Jan 2 02:09 PM:

The problem is that a written description of the rules for Tenjiku Shogi would be so long that it would only be accessible through extensive scrolling. And it that case having it on the same page is worse than having it on a separate page to which you can easily switch back and forth.

Mind you, I don't want to argue that the Jocly presentation of Tenjiku Shogi cannot be improved. But it is just not in the same class as 8x8 variants with 6 piece types. It has 37 piece types, many with unusual moves (double captures and such). To be of any use an aid for the uninitiated should be a lot more advanced than a conventional cheat sheet.

Western players would probably best play with a pictogram representation rather than kanji. (And the 2d representation in Jocly will have to be fixed to provide that opportunity.) And the Tenjiku article should have an Interactive Diagram that can be switched between several piece representations, including a 2-kanji representation. And perhaps there should be a Jocly 3d representation with mnemonic pieces.


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