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Many Western chess and shogi players note that they do not understand the internal logic of xiangqi, they can not understand the criteria for choosing a move in this game. Xiangqi is the most mysterious game of all three versions. And one more obvious fact: Western chess players, trying to play ...

Joelnelsonb wrote:How many moves does an average game of Shogi consist of? And are we talking "Chess moves" or "Go moves"? They are different.

Somewhere in one and a half times longer than an average game of chess.

We rightly noted the dignity of Shogi in this topic, but some players have asked any opinion about xiangqi. Why this game is so popular, even the most popular in the world. Obviously not only because China is overpopulated. For example, xiangqi is the game number one in Vietnam, much more popular ...

While the number of board positions is less than Go, wouldn't the number of possible game (records) be larger that Go, even considering various repetition rules for Shogi?


There are more then 500 theoretically possible moves in the shogi endgame from the one position. Branching in the shogi ...

As someone who hasn't grown up with any of these four but tried them all (I grew up playing Janggi) I guess I can cast a neutral vote, and to me it's definitely Shogi. Because of the 'capture and drop anywhere' rule its complexity level is almost on par with Go and far more dynamic than any other ...

One other difference GameTeacher might be that in Shogi, compared to Go, Chess and Xiangqi is the endgame isn't a simplification but often is a race to mate. That makes it so exciting and different from the other three games.

Yes, it brings some "animal" pleasure of the game. Other games bring ...

When I read the comments, I often like to say: do not judge a book by its cover. Whether you like rules, shapes, boards or do not like, it is difficult to teach your characters or not difficult - the essence of the game is irrelevant. Since my childhood I played chess, I was a winner of the national ...