Board games
Gunjin Shōgi
Nintendo Co., Ltd., 1910
Gunjin Shōgi is a board game published by Nintendo Co., Ltd. in 1910. It is played with 2 to 3 players, from age 10 and in about 30 minutes.
- players
- 2–3
- minutes
- 30
- years
- 10+
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The box
- Publisher
- Nintendo Co., Ltd.
- Designer
- Eisuke Nishiguchi
- Year of release
- 1910
- Also known as
- Kogun Shogi
About the game
Gunjin Shōgi or Japanese Military Chess (軍人将棋), also known as Marching Chess (行軍将棋, Kōgun Shōgi), is a two-player board game, intended for children. Although the pentagonal pieces are shaped like those of Shōgi, the objective is to capture the other player's flag, more similar in gameplay to Stratego (1942) and its antecedent L'Attaque (1908). Both players start with an equal number of pieces in varying strengths; like Stratego and L'Attaque, Gunjin Shōgi is a game of imperfect information, where the placement of the opponent's pieces are hidden initially and must be determined by deduction. It is not known what influence these games, which were developed around the same time, may have had on each other, as there are notable similarities and differences.More from Nintendo Co., Ltd.
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