H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Jun 7, 2012 12:28 PM UTC:
I designed a set of 'western' (actually more accurate would be to speak of 'culture-neutral') set of piece symbols for the large Shogi variants for WinBoard. The design goals were:
High mnemonic content as to the way the piece moves
Pieces should be easily discriminated from each other (preferably 'at a glance')
Requiring low resolution (so it can be rendered quite small without loss of quality)
Important pieces should naturally jump out (by large size, or unique shape)
Most pieces should be easy to construct automatically by software, based on their moves
This gives the following for Tenjiku: