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🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Jan 3 04:55 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from 03:51 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.

The Game Courier preset has an illustrated piece-by-piece guide that spans four screens on my HD monitor. But it wastes a lot of space using only two columns when many piece descriptions are short. Using flex or grid, it could fit the information into more columns. In fact, the first screen is mainly pieces that don't promote, and these could be handled more compactly as a group of pieces without promoted versions.

Western players would probably best play with a pictogram representation rather than kanji.

Certainly. I normally play Shogi with the Motif or Symbolic pieces, which use pictographic images from sets for Chess on Shogi wedges. Large Shogi variants like this one would benefit from a set with Alfaerie images on wedges.