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H. G. Muller wrote on Tue, Feb 13, 2024 09:52 AM UTC in reply to François Houdebert from 09:32 AM:

Tenjiku Shogi is basically an extension of Chu Shogi. Some pieces that in Chu Shogi are only available as promoted pieces, already are present in the initial setup, and promote further. There are also many new pieces in the initial setup, most with their own, entirely new promotions. But all Chu Shogi pieces participate except the Go Between.

This is why I called the kanji piece set tenjiku-set-view rather than chu-set-view; the idea was that it would at some point be extended with all remaining Tenjiku pieces. The kanji tiles only differ in diffusemap anyway, and the diffusemaps for all Tenjiku kanji tiles already exist, used in the Jocly Tenjiku implementation here on CVP. (But under different names from how we would want them.) They would just have to be committed (in a directory chessbase/res/shogi/tenjiku-diffusemaps, using the naming system also used for the chu-diffusemaps).

I added the Duck as a quasi-mnemonic representation for a diagonal hook mover (Long-Nosed Goblin or Capricorn) from the large Shogi variants, and in particular my shrunken version Macadamia Shogi. But I also used in for the Half Duck in Chess with Different Armies.