shogi
Noun
Meaning
a form of chess played on a board of 81 squares; each player has 20 pieces
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About 200 professional shogi players compete.
According to The Chess Variant Pages : Perhaps the enduring popularity of shogi can be attributed to its ‘drop rule’; it was the first chess variant wherein captured pieces could be returned to the board to be used as one's own.
An illegal move results in an immediate loss of the game in professional and tournament shogi, even if play continued and the move was discovered later in game.
Around the 15th century, the rules of dai shogi were simplified, creating the game of chu shogi in a form close to the modern game.
Computers have steadily improved in playing shogi since the 1970s.
Computer shogi main Shogi has the highest game complexity of all popular chess variants.