There are visual hints to remember the moves of the Shogun's pieces.

In the top left corner, there are two rows:
- the first row contains the Japanese characters which represent each of the Shogun's pieces,
- under each character, there are lines which indicate allowed movements for the piece above it.

Here is the row of interest highlighted in yellow colour:



That is it for the tip.

I hope you won't get discouraged by the difficulty to recognize these characters, and that you will play as the Shogun, because it is fun!

The pieces are taken from Shogi[en.wikipedia.org].


The characters are the abbreviations of the pieces.

王 King
飛 Rook
角 Bishop
金 Gold general
銀 Silver general
桂 KNight
香 Lance
歩 Pawn





"A king or a gold general does not promote; nor can a piece that is already promoted."

Other than these: