EuroShogi

Game rules

EuroShogi is played on an 8×8 board of same-colored fields. The three farthest ranks from each player form their promotion zone. The starting setup is: White has king on D1, generals on C1 and E1, rook on G2, bishops on B2 and F1, knights on B1 and G1, and pawns on the whole 3rd rank. Black has king on E8, generals on D8 and F8, rook on B7, bishops on C8 and G7, knights on B8 and G8, and pawns on the whole 6th rank. Pieces capture as they move. The king steps one square in any direction and does not promote. The rook moves any number of unoccupied squares orthogonally; when promoted it gains the ability to move one square diagonally. The bishop moves any number of unoccupied squares diagonally; when promoted it gains the ability to move one square orthogonally. The general moves one square in every direction except diagonally backward and does not promote. The knight jumps one square forward then one square diagonally forward, leaping over intervening men, and can also move one square horizontally to the side; the promoted knight moves as a general. The pawn steps one square forward; the promoted pawn moves as a general. A player promotes a man immediately at the end of the turn when it crosses into the promotion zone; the king and general cannot promote. A pawn or knight promoted in the zone obtains general movement by rotating its cube. A rook or bishop dropped from the stack into the promotion zone is not promoted instantly but can be promoted when it moves. Captured men are stored in a stack, rotated to change color and lose promotion. A player may either move a man or drop any man from the stack onto any vacant square, except that a pawn may not be dropped on a file already containing a pawn of the same color or on the last rank. Check, checkmate, and draws follow classical chess, but perpetual check is not permitted.