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Generals' Chess. Missing description (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 02:59 PM UTC:

Each player has 3 blacksmiths beside the board when the game starts. The first move consists of placing all 3 blacksmiths on the player’s second rank.

Considering that each player's second rank is already filled by Pawns, does this mean that Blacksmiths replace three Pawns on each side?


Bn Em wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 03:15 PM UTC:

It's not terribly clear given that the diagram lacks horizontal separators between ranks (instead using one text line per rank), but the pawns start (as written below the diagram) on the 3rd rank, not the second.

Though I'm a bit curious as to why 3 generals rather than the more obvious two?


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 09:39 PM UTC:

I touched up this page and added some graphics. I used piece images from the Alfaerie: Many set, but the Blacksmith may be a new piece, and I'm not sure if that set includes anything that would be appropriate. Does anyone have a suggestion for what would be appropriate?


H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 10:00 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 09:39 PM:

The Blacksmith occurs in Chu Shogi as Horizontal Mover. There is a 'Chu-Shogi Western' page that uses an Alfaerie symbol for it.


Greg Strong wrote on Tue, Feb 23, 2021 10:20 PM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 09:39 PM:

There's also this guy:


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2021 12:32 AM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Tue Feb 23 10:00 PM:

The Blacksmith occurs in Chu Shogi as Horizontal Mover.

I found the Side Mover in Chu Shogi described as sRvW, but the Blacksmith in this game is a divergent pieces that moves like this only when not capturing. It captures as a Ferz.


H. G. Muller wrote on Wed, Feb 24, 2021 09:07 AM UTC in reply to Fergus Duniho from 12:32 AM:

Oh, sorry, I missed that.


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