Microshogi is a Shogi variant played on a 4×5 board with hybrid pieces -- non-standard pairings of standard units: Bishop / Tokin Gold General / Rook Silver General / Lance Pawn / Knight King A piece is promoted (flipped) whenever it captures another piece. This is mandatory even when the flip side is a weaker unit. Also unlike 9×9 Shogi, captured pieces...
Yonin Shogi or Four-handed Shogi is a four-player variant of shogi invented in 1993 but published in its current form in 1995. The game is played using two subsets of standard shogi pieces and a standard 9x9 shogi board. Each of the four players gets one king, one rook, two gold generals, two silver generals, and three pawns. The players sit around the...
Inspired by Kyoto Shogi, Renge Shogi, designed by Michael Sandeman, is played on a 7x7 board. Each player has seven pieces, from left to right along the back rank: Silver, Pawn, Gold, King, Gold, Pawn, Silver. Whenever a piece moves (except the King), it alternately promotes and demotes: Silver - Lance Gold - Knight Left Pawn - Bishop Right Pawn - Rook As...
Source: http://www.drjochum.de/ via http://www.archive.org Hexagonal Kyoto Shogi is Tamiya Katsuya's Kyoto Shogi adapted to a 37-cell hexagonal board. The movement of the pieces is based on Wladyslaw Glinski's Hexagonal Chess. As with all Shogi variants, the objective is to checkmate your opponent's king. Unlike chess, Shogi pieces are flat, all the same...