Board games
Wa shogi
The Shogi Association, 1649
Wa shogi is a board game published by The Shogi Association in 1649. It is played with 2 players, from age 12 and in about 150 minutes.
- players
- 2
- minutes
- 150
- years
- 12+
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The box
- Publisher
- The Shogi Association
- Year of release
- 1649
About the game
Wa shogi (和将棋, wa shōgi, harmony chess) is a large board variant of shogi (Japanese chess) in which all of the pieces are named for animals. It is played either with or without drops.
Because of the terse and often incomplete wording of the historical sources for the large shogi variants, except for chu shogi and to a lesser extent dai shogi (which were at some points of time the most prestigious forms of shogi being played), the historical rules of wa shogi are not clear. Different sources differ significantly in the moves attributed to the pieces. Presented here are the piece movements that are somewhat standard among modern players of wa shogi, among which the game is played with drops.More from The Shogi Association
- Chu Shogi · 1300
- Micro shogi · 1982
- Tai shogi · 1500
- Tenjiku shogi · 1500
- Tori shogi · 1799
- Yonin shogi · 1993
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