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Yonin Shogi. 4-handed Shogi variant. (9x9, Cells: 81) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Charles Gilman wrote on Wed, Oct 4, 2006 06:43 AM UTC:
It's interesting to see the origins of this variant. It inspired me to
stick its name into a search engine and see what other websites there
were
on it. I found several others, including
http://www.answers.com/topic/yonin-shogi which linked to
http://www.answers.com/topic/sannin-shogi on a still-older three-player
hex Shogi. That led me to check whether Sannin Shogi had a page on this
site, which it doesn't, but Sankaku Shogi does. On checking that one I
saw that san was confirmed as meaning three - so it would seem that yo
rather that yon is the bit meaning four in Yonin. So... would the correct
translation of Chaturaji (four kings) into Japanese be... Yoo?