I think I can improve this game.Basically keep the entire army inside a bag of tokens, similar to scrabble.Then you play on a 9x9 board.There's a 2 river side mechanic like Xianqui.The king can't move beyond his own lane and never cross the river.Each player can start by placing their units using Shogi drop mechanic, into any free position of his lane.Then each player can summon a random piece of his bag of units until there's a checkmate or he has run out of new units to use.
>>98045964Doesn't seem like a good idea to me.>I think I can improve this game.Maybe you can, but first work on improving what you have written. You seem quite fluent but you have failed to express your ideas in a comprehensive and unambiguous way.You show a picture of a huge shogi game but say you can improve it by reducing board size to the size of normal shogi. That's a very poor way of doing things as the big game evolved from the normal. There are 402 pieces each side in taikyoku shogi. Nowhere have you said when, or even that, that pieces can move.Your statement that>Then each player can summon a random piece ...is pointless at this stage in your explanation. It reduces to>You can keep drawing pieces from your bag until:>1) The game ends (by checkmate)>2) Your bag is empty.Both of those ideas are trivially true. Of course you don't draw from your bag when your bag is empty or the game is over.But, with 402 pieces and only 36 positions on your half of the board it's going to take a long time to ever reach a state when your bag is empty.>Each player can start by placing their units...How is a player supposed to that when that comes before>Then each player can summon a random piece...Where are the units that a "player can start by placing" except already "inside a bag of tokens" which already implies "summon a random piece of his bag of units". That "then" condition with lack of explanation of where the units first come from is a huge oversight on your part.>The king can't move beyond...You never explain what a lane is. Do you mean the river divides the board into two lanes? In which case "the king can't move beyond his own lane" and "never cross the river" are tautological because not only can't he move across the river he can't even enter the river if he can't leave his lane.You go ahead and "improve" normal shogi by random drop of 402 starting pieces. I don't see that it's an improvement.>XianquiXiangqi is the accepted spelling.
>>98046460well, dunno if my english is perfect, lol.I am trying to re design taikyoku to be a more realistic game to play.I think removing the need to place 804 pieces and make it instead drag from a bag like scrabble to be an improvement over the original.Also, you missunderstand me, my idea is like you can decide to place a piece from the bag like a go piece into your own side of the Xiangqi river.My idea is a mixture of shogi, go and Xianqui rules with scribble bag deck.
