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Kyoto shogi is played like standard shogi, but with a reduced number of pieces on a 5×5 board. However, the pieces alternately promote and depromote with every move, and the promotion values are entirely different from standard shogi. RULES OF THE GAME Game equipment Two players play on a board ruled into a grid of 5 ''ranks'' (rows) by 5 ''files'' (columns). The squares are undifferentiated by marking or color. Each player has a set of 5 wedge-shaped pieces, of slightly different sizes. From largest to smallest (most to least powerful) they are:
The names of the pieces combine their promoted and unpromoted values, and are puns in Japanese for words with the same pronunciations but different kanji. For example, the lance/tokin is homonymous with the name of the city 京都 Kyoto , and provides the name of the game. Setup
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