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Chu Shogi. (Updated!) Historic Japanese favorite, featuring a multi-capturing Lion. (12x12, Cells: 144) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝H. G. Muller wrote on Fri, Jun 28, 2013 08:18 AM UTC:

I wrote an engine (called HaChu) that can play Chu Shogi under WinBoard (the Alien Edition, as it needs multi-move support for the Lion). The idea is that in the future it would also be able to play the even larger Shogi variants Tenjiku, Dai Dai, Maka Dai Dai and Tai. But currently it plays only Sho, Chu and Dai Shogi (and Shatranj and Makruk, which are very Shogi like). I packaged engine and GUI together in a special Chu Shogi release. It can be downloaded from

http://hgm.nubati.net/WinBoard-Chu.zip .

WinBoard uses mnemonic piece pictograms in board sizes 'tiny' and 'petite', and traditional kanji in other board sizes. (Your OS must have Asian language support for that to display correctly.)

The engine is pretty strong (but you can always handicap it by hefty time odds). I played it on the 81Dojo server, and is able to compete with the strongest Chu players there.