Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.


[ Help | Earliest Comments | Latest Comments ]
[ List All Subjects of Discussion | Create New Subject of Discussion ]
[ List Earliest Comments Only For Pages | Games | Rated Pages | Rated Games | Subjects of Discussion ]

Single Comment

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 Tue, Oct 13, 2020 03:42 PM UTC in reply to Alex Trick from 02:26 PM:

@Alex - The mnemonic pics here were copied from WinBoard by taking screenshots, where I used a general-purpose drawing program to make the background transparent. WinBoard creates those images on-the fly, from components that represent the move in one direction (but i a way depending on the range in adjacent directions), plus a central dot. In order to draw an edge around that for the outline pieces, it creates a black image first, and overlays it with a slightly smaller white image, so that a black outline remains. The largest size is 33x33, though, and the images are not anti-aliased.

I remember having made a set of SVG images for each of the individual pieces, for XBoard, though. I am pretty sure this includes all the Chu-Shogi pieces, and probably also the Wa-Shogi pieces. I would have to dig that up; I could not find it on my website.

Interesting that there now is a new Chu-Shogi engine. How strong is it, compared to HaChu?

As to larger variants: I have a pretty strong engine for Tenjiku Shogi. (Not yet released; I am still planning to do that.)

I am not on Facebook.

[Edit] Oh, I see. The engine actually is HaChu. It is only the interface that is new.

[Edit2] I found the SVG pieces, and uploaded the whole project to http://hgm.nubati.net/Mnemonic-S.tar.gz .