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Bario Shogi

Setup

Each piece other than King, Pawn are replaced by 'kara' which looks like .

Rules

When you move a kara, you put another tile in your throw pile (throw pile starts with all tiles missing from start, which would be your own) onto it, and move it like that kind of piece. A piece can only promote if it moved into the promotion zone while it wan't a blank piece already. If it becomes blank again, it is unpromoted. When one player has no more blank pieces left he owns on his board, take ALL pieces on top of kara (both players) and put in its owner throw pile. When a double piece is captured, both go on his bench, as a double piece and it is dropped as that double piece (now he owns the top tile of it).

Notes

I played this game, and its good game. Don't sacrifice your angle-mover too early. And once you complete a cycle, if opponent has few or no undefined pieces, you will get a good advantage in your side.

Here is one way of describing this game, I don't know if this is easier or harder to understand: BarioShogi (inherits Shogi) { List throwpile[2] boardsetup()={ board=Shogi:boardsetup() throwpile[1]={GOLD,SILVER,HHORSE,FRAGR,GOLD,SILVER,HHORSE,FRAGR,FLY,ANGLE} throwpile[2]=throwpile[1] for each cell in board { if cell.piece in throwpile[1] then cell.piece=KARA } } checkmoves()={ m=getmove(filter(cell in board where cell.owner=currentplayer) & bench[currentplayer]) if from bench, or m.piece is not KARA, do as shogi, else { p=getmove(throwpile[currentplayer]) remove p from throwpile[currentplayer] board[m.index].piece=p m1=getmove(Shogi:legalmoves(m.index,p)) move(m.index,m1.index) } if len(filter(cell in board where cell.owner=1 and cell.piece=KARA))=0 or len(filter(cell in board where cell.owner=2 and cell.piece=KARA))=0: { for each cell in board { if not cell.piece in {NOTHING,SOLDIER,PSOLDIER,KING} { add cell.piece to throwpile[cell.owner] cell.piece=KARA } } } (everything else like Shogi) } (everything else like Shogi) }

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By (zzo38) A. Black.
Web page created: 2005-10-18. Web page last updated: 2005-12-04