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Posted: December 6, 2010 05:43 pm  | |||||
      IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8    | It's... beautiful... THAT, my fellow chess virtuosos, is Taikyoku Shogi. 1,296 squares and 209 unique pieces of sheer sake-consuming awesome. There are 253 unique moves which must be memorized, as well as strict hierarchies of upgradable pieces. And the game also incorporates TWO members of royalty, a king and a crown prince, so if you thought you'd just have to checkmate ONCE then you're just retarded! Biggest board game ever, dated to Japan in the 16th or 17th Century. You know you want to play it. --------------------  | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 05:50 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Darth Group: Ex-Member Posts: 4601 Member No.: 838 Joined: June 12, 2008 Total Events Attended: 558 | ಠ_ಠ --------------------  | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 06:11 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Armybuilder Group: Raid Leader Posts: 1468 Member No.: 2173 Joined: December 6, 2009 Total Events Attended: 227 | I actually want to play this game wow. --------------------     | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 08:15 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 | The pieces are awesome too. Ancient dragons, fire demons, burning chariots, tiger soldiers, buddhist spirits, flying geese, capricorns, flying horses, venomous wolves, mountain witches, northern/southern/eastern/western barbarians... It's like dungeons and dragons from like the 1600s! -------------------- | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 08:17 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: ZurvivorMan Group: Emeritus Posts: 1098 Member No.: 1528 Joined: December 6, 2008 Total Events Attended: 99 | Zomg!! -------------------- You don't have to feel like a waste of space You're original, cannot be replaced If you only knew what the future holds After a hurricane comes a rainbow Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed So you can open one that leads you to the perfect road  | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 09:04 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Topwob98_ Group: Ex-Member Posts: 186 Member No.: 2277 Joined: June 2, 2010 Total Events Attended: 56 | wat? the? fudge? --------------------   | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 09:54 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Bam Group: Emeritus Posts: 2762 Member No.: 131 Joined: January 20, 2008 Total Events Attended: 111 | how many figures can you mone in one row? --------------------   | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 11:37 pm | |||||
 IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 |
All the pieces look the same to me. --------------------   | ||||
Posted: December 6, 2010 11:43 pm | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Wayne|Eregion2 Group: Emeritus Posts: 3087 Member No.: 156 Joined: January 25, 2008 Total Events Attended: 8 |
Technically one move per turn, which I suspect was done with much greater rapidity than we're used to seeing in modern chess. While I can totally imagine finesse being a factor, there must be huge offenses going on in one of these games. There are also pieces that can make more than one move as part of their turn, allowing them to maneuver around linear obstructions to make quick strikes. If I played it though I'd probably want to make 10 moves per turn or so.  // edit // Goddamn, get this:
Stratego just shat itself. // edit // Fire demons in Tenjiku Shogi (16x16) have an AoE attack that wipes out all adjacent enemies surrounding where they land at the end of their move. But if a fire demon attacks a fire demon, the attacking demon is incinerated. This ability isn't available in Taikyoku Shogi, but it's cool anyways. -------------------- | ||||
Posted: December 7, 2010 12:05 am | |||||
| IRC Nickname: Vephy Group: Elite Guardian Posts: 6186 Member No.: 813 Joined: June 10, 2008 Total Events Attended: 478 | Find an online version and I'll play you a game to try it? -------------------- | ||||
Posted: December 7, 2010 05:26 am | |||||
 IRC Nickname: DG_Keanu Group: Council Posts: 4782 Member No.: 2033 Joined: August 25, 2009 Total Events Attended: 173 | I deem this topic worthy of surviving my House of Random Plague of RickRolls. The far East never ceases to amaze me. --------------------  [05:42] <+WG_Keanu> I think I got a semi just looking at the pic [05:42] <%kat> same | ||||
Oh my God...