Fuseki Shogi

Shogi that starts from an empty board, each side placing its pieces before anything moves. Two rule sets, Fuseki Shogi and Balance Shogi, playable right in the browser.

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Three differences from ordinary shogi: the board starts empty, each side places 20 pieces within its first four ranks, and pieces start moving on move 41.

Full rules · What is Balance Shogi? · How Balance Shogi came to be

Game record

During placement the SFEN is a Fuseki Shogi extension with kings in hand and ordinary shogi software cannot read it. From move 41 it is standard SFEN.

A KIF whose starting position is the position at move 41, after placement. The 40 placement moves are not included (KIF has no way to write them). Paste it into ShogiGUI or similar with “paste record”; move 1 there is the first move of the shogi phase.

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The game in progress will be discarded. Copy the record first if you want to keep it.

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