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I don't think there is such a thing as a 'Universal set.' Look at game courier and at www.brainking.com (for example). The later tries to use a consistent style for all their sets and does a very good job. But I do not see a 'Universal set.'

As for Shogi, it uses a 9x9 board and flat, but angled pieces. And light tiles white with black images for both players (some have red for the promotion side)

3D pieces? On our graphic systems on the PC pieces are 2D... so certainly 2d can be used for western games. For 3D game sets, tiles are best for Shogi. Also for Shogi, there are 4 fairly popular piece sets (1) Japanese characters, (2) Japanese & Chinese characters both (3) vector images (4) western style images.

Xianqi (Chinese chess) - circular pieces are desired by tradition. And, they play on line intersections instead of on the squares themselves. Purchased sets often have Chinese on one side and western images on the other. Many PC versions have an option to select Chinese or Graphic pieces.

Closing note... I sort of like the variety of pieces I see here at CV. If one wants to make something like a Universal set, then the Alfarie piece sets are likely a very good place to start(sp)