Pieces, Shogi Glossary

There are eight kind of pieces in Shogi. Six of them can promote and change its move. Following is a table of the pieces with their Japanese representations and English equivalents. The abbreviations are used for game notation and often to refer to the pieces in speech in Japanese. * The kanji 竜 is a simplified form of 龍.

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