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Cyril Veltin wrote on Tue, Feb 6 04:36 PM EST in reply to Bn Em from Tue Jan 9 08:11 AM:

Hi,

When promoted, the Princess becomes the Goddess and gains the movement abilities of the King, in addition to her existing capabilities.

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💡📝Cyril Veltin wrote on Sun, Mar 3 03:05 PM EST in reply to Bn Em from Tue Jan 9 08:11 AM:

Hi Bn Em,

Thank you for your interest in the game.

The knight component of the Empress moves in the Western style. I've updated the game's description to make this information more explicit, thanks to your question.

Regarding the river, its sole effect is indeed the enhancement of pawns upon crossing.

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Cyril Veltin wrote on Tue, Apr 9 05:22 PM EDT in reply to Bn Em from Sat Mar 16 10:03 AM:

Hi @nelk114,

Absolutly, Mandatory promotion means deferring promotion isn't allowed in this version of the game.

Have you tested with the (lack of) pawn‐drop‐checkmate rule?

Sure :) As you'd expect, this rule has the effect of shortening the duration of games, when the opportunity arises.

My current opinion is that the removal of this rule, which prevented you from checking out with a parachuted pawn, makes the game simpler and at least as enjoyable.

In fact, I can't think of any good reason to keep the shogi constraint.

Cyril Veltin wrote on Tue, Apr 9 05:31 PM EDT in reply to H. G. Muller from Sat Mar 16 10:45 AM:

Hi @HGMuller,

Thank you for your detailled feedback.

I don't see the use of having separate tables for the pieces of the north and south player. These are almost completely the same. And I doubt that one of the differences would be correct: Although it is Japanes custom to have one of the players use 玉将 (Jade General) for royal piece, (not necessarily the north player, btw), Google translate doesn't know any translation for 玉妃. The few differences can easily be mentioned in an extra column, or even both in the same table cell.

You're right. I merged both tables.

And they still don't supply the most important information: which name belongs to which image. You are not showing kanji pieces here, so the Japanese name gives no indication which piece is which.

That's right. I've added images for each of them.

There doesn't seem any need to list different abbreviations for the two players; in western Shogi notation (PSN) one uses capitals for both players.

I updated to use capitals for both players.

You also give no description of the moves. Although many articles here write "pieces ... move as in orthodox Chess", I don't think that we can assume every reader here knows Shogi.

I added a description for each move.

The article is very repetitive anyway; you mention in two places that the difference is the addition of the Princess, even before you start a section "differences with Shogi". Much of that is redundant.

Agree with you. I removed repetitive stuff.

In order to change the slug of the page, from gi to ogi, I created a new page here: https://www.chessvariants.com/rules/ogi (with all the changes)

I will delete this page to avoid duplication.

Thank you.

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💡📝Cyril Veltin wrote on Wed, Apr 10 01:50 PM EDT in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 02:11 AM:

Hi @jean-louiscazaux,

Yes, I am the inventer of this game. I can update the page to mention this. Thanks for pointing it out.

💡📝Cyril Veltin wrote on Thu, Apr 11 07:58 AM EDT in reply to Bn Em from Wed Apr 10 07:04 PM:

Hi @nelk114,

I've moved the piece movement descriptions to the Pieces section as recommended.

Thanks to everyone for the feedback and reviews; they've truly made this page better.

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