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@ H. G. Muller[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
A. M. DeWitt wrote on Sat, Oct 19 06:34 PM UTC in reply to H. G. Muller from Fri Sep 20 07:50 AM:

Considered by who? In my eyes it is more a hybrid. It keeps the pieces from Dai that were in Chu, but the large Shogi variants all do that. The pieces that distingush Dai from Chu were all thrown out. Although one might argue that the promotion-on-capture rule is the decisive difference.

But of course there is nothing against hybrids.

Buddhist Spirit is also an interesting power piece.

Well, now that I am back to inventing Chess Variants and being more involved in general, I think using only the Dai Shogi (-like) move types would make for a more interesting challenge. Especially now that the Shock Chess rule is implemented, which makes for a much simplet trading rule without making pieces basically immortal.

P.S. I posited a question about the shock rule in relation to multi-movers, which you can find here.