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Five-Minute Poppy Shogi. Small shogi variant on a 4 by 5 board. (4x5, Cells: 20) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, May 4, 2003 09:16 AM UTC:

'All pieces move in the same way as in Shogi', but 'At the reverse side of the Pawn, there is a Knight.' Is this an Occidental Knight or the Hon. Horse of Shogi, and if the latter, what happens when it reaches the end of the board?

John Lawson wrote on Sun, May 4, 2003 10:48 AM UTC:

I looked it up on Georg Dunkel's site,
http://www.kolumbus.fi/geodun/shogi.htm , 
and he gives the rule as: 
'All pieces move in the same way as in Shogi (except that they do not
promote in the same way.)'

John Smith wrote on Mon, Dec 22, 2008 05:45 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

Note that there is no need for much backward movement as the pieces can be captured and repositioned. There is always at least one piece that can move backward. This game is different than simply a miniature version of Shogi, because the promotion is not as monotonous.

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Apr 28, 2010 01:02 PM UTC:

These unusual promotion rules are taken from ancient large Shogi variants.