As stated earlier this week, Board games Thursday is (for now) becoming Shôgi Thursday! As usual we'll play at 22:30 CET / 20:30 UTC (~3h30 from now)
> What is Shôgi?
Shôgi is a strategy board game similar to chess, its main differences are:
- dropping rule: when you capture an opponent piece, you can use it as your own
- promotion: every piece can promote into a pre-defined form
- pieces: some of the pieces have different behaviour from normal chess, some are completely new
Those differences makes Shôgi a much more complex/deep game than chess, but also makes it a bit more freeform in my opinion
> I don't know how to play...
Then it's the perfect occasion to learn, feel free to join and you'll get an introduction to the game. If you want you can also read the rules here: https://www.shogi.cz/en/rules
Don't worry about chinese symbols being confusing, the world we'll be playing in have an option for chess symbols
> Changes about Board games Thursday
Recently the sessions were kinda dead and I've been struggling to find new game worlds. Meanwhile, I kinda want to play more shôgi and it seems like some anons have interest in this game (eventually these thursday sessions could be expanded if/when I get motivation to make a board game world). However I'm not 100% abandoning the concept, every first Thursday of the month I'll go back to the old formula.