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Tenjiku Shogi. Fire Demons burn surrounding enemies, Generals capture jumping many pieces. (16x16, Cells: 256) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
📝H. G. Muller wrote on Thu, Dec 15, 2022 10:17 AM UTC in reply to A. M. DeWitt from 12:03 AM:

The Taikyoku page on CVP states thee Generals move the same there as in Tenjiku. Wikipedia mentions the range-capture, though.

I think it would be dramatically different. Because then you don't need to move Pawns to develop the Generals; they would be fully developed in the initial position. So instead of the usual 1. k6 to threaten mate through 2. Vo10# you could immediatel play VGo10 (capturing your own k Pawn) to check. This would not be mate in that case, because black can still interpose his VG (capturing his own Lion Hawk and Kirin; blocking with his GG (and thus pinning it)  would get him checkmated immediately through 2. GGxi5#). This inflicts heavy losses on gote. And sente could play 1. BGp9 first to make it even worse.