Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Chess vs. Shougi
I've been considering the differences between chess and shogi (Japanese chess). I'm not a math person, so I don't know how this works out, but chess is played on an 8x8 board with 16 pieces per player, whereas shogi is played on a 9x9 board with 20 pieces per player. It shouldn't make that much of a difference, but I know that now when I look at a chess board it seems a good deal simpler. For comparison:
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Shougi just makes my brain explode from the complexity. But maybe like INCEPTION, the complexity is what makes it fun :) I also know chess better than shougi
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