Okisaki shogi

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Okisaki shogi (御妃将棋 okisaki shōgi "Queen shogi") is a modern variant of shogi (Japanese chess). It was developed by Masayuki Nakayachi c. 1996 from suggestions by German chess player Ralph Blockhaus.

Okisaki shogi is similar to standard shogi, but is played on a 10×10 board. There are ten pawns and a queen, which moves like a queen in Western chess. The knights also move as in Western chess.

Rules of the game

Objective

The objective of the game is to capture your opponent's king or all other pieces.^{[citation needed]}

Game equipment

Each player has a set of 22 wedge-shaped pieces: those of standard shogi plus a queen and an extra pawn. The queen is placed to the immediate left of the king.

Moves

Piece moves are as in standard shogi, apart from the queen (妃将 or 妃 hishō or okisaki "princess") and the knights (跳馬 or 跳 chōma), which move as in Western chess, and the lance, which can move directly forward or backwards (standard shogi knights and lances can only move forward.)

Because they can back out, the standard requirements for promoting knights and lances in the final ranks, and restrictions on dropping them there, do not apply to okisaki shogi. Limits on pawn drops are as in standard shogi.

Promotion

Pieces other than the king, queen, and gold promote as in standard shogi.

v t e Shogi variants Standard shogi (9×9, drops)

Small variants	Bushi shogi (1×2, with cubes) Gufuu shogi (2×3) Nana shogi (3×3) Dōbutsu shōgi (3×4, for children) Micro shogi (4×5) Minishogi (5×5) Kyoto shogi (5×5) Goro goro shogi (5×6) Judkins shogi (6×6) Whale shogi (6×6) Tori shogi (7×7) Yari shogi (7×9) Cubic shogi (8×8) Heian shogi (8×8 or 9×8, 12th c.)

Standard-size variants	Sho shogi (9×9, 16th c.) Cannon shogi (9×9) Hasami shogi (9×9, 9 or 18 pc.) Hand shogi (9×9, 19 pc., 10 in hand) Annan shogi (9×9, neighbors influence movement) Unashogi (9×9, all drops) Masonic shogi (9×9, staggered ranks) Hexshogi (85 hex cells) Trishogi (9×10, triangular cells)

Large variants	Okisaki shogi (10×10) Wa shogi (11×11) Chu shogi (12×12) Heian dai shogi (13×13) Dai shogi (15×15) Tenjiku shogi (16×16) Dai-dai shōgi (17×17) Maka-dai-dai shōgi (19×19) Hishigata shōgi (19×19) Kō shōgi (19×19) Tai shogi (25×25) Taikyoku shogi (36×36)

Multiplayer variants	Sannin shogi (hex board, 7 cells per side, 3-player game) Yonin shogi (9×9, 4-player game)

3D variants	Space shogi (9×9×9 variant)

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