George Duke wrote on Thu, Dec 29, 2016 08:14 PM UTC:
Next, this is the piece section of David Howe's "Concise Guide" put out in 2011:
Pieces.
And not far afield Howe's list of categories of types from earlier 2001:
Types.
And then Christine Bagley-Jones' historic 150+ Shogi variant pieces found in this 2012 article: Fairy_Shogi All 154 piece-types exactly are in fact indicated in the one 12x16 first board of "Fairy Pieces." Frivolously, if you make the board 24x16, there can be two sides with 154 different-moving pieces Shogi-derived from actual recorded Japanese CVs, but of course most of them are unable to move from respective array.
It was found that Gilman's combined indexes define about 2000 differing piece-types, only 75% or so newly made up by him. Thus to show all Charles' the way Christine does diagrammatically on just one board can easily by done for the Gilman 2000 on a given 70x70 chessboard, providing for both sides. Again, most would be immobilized at the start until things open up by areas of board size 70 square. [By coincidence -- more precise than rounding to tens -- 64x64 board gives 4096 squares and that is the first size more than enough too if omitting Pawns, to exhibit often-repeated 2000 piece-types each force, plus a King and some space between.]
Next, this is the piece section of David Howe's "Concise Guide" put out in 2011: Pieces.
And not far afield Howe's list of categories of types from earlier 2001: Types.
And then Christine Bagley-Jones' historic 150+ Shogi variant pieces found in this 2012 article: Fairy_Shogi All 154 piece-types exactly are in fact indicated in the one 12x16 first board of "Fairy Pieces." Frivolously, if you make the board 24x16, there can be two sides with 154 different-moving pieces Shogi-derived from actual recorded Japanese CVs, but of course most of them are unable to move from respective array.
It was found that Gilman's combined indexes define about 2000 differing piece-types, only 75% or so newly made up by him. Thus to show all Charles' the way Christine does diagrammatically on just one board can easily by done for the Gilman 2000 on a given 70x70 chessboard, providing for both sides. Again, most would be immobilized at the start until things open up by areas of board size 70 square. [By coincidence -- more precise than rounding to tens -- 64x64 board gives 4096 squares and that is the first size more than enough too if omitting Pawns, to exhibit often-repeated 2000 piece-types each force, plus a King and some space between.]