TIL (well, technically yesterday) that there's a variant of shogi (japanese chess) played on a 36x36 board where each side has 402 pieces that move in 253 distinct ways
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you can find a list of the pieces and what they do on wikipedia, god bless
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this is a different variant but check this shit out. are you really playing chess if you don't have a piece called a "fire demon"
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apparently a bunch of these shogi variants were invented by buddhist monks so i imagine boredom lol
some of them were maybe also played ritually and not for entertainment who knows
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I imagine this is a sort of Calvinball where you win by making up the best lies about what your pieces are able to do
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the super smash bros of invented board games.
"what if literally every single mythical character was ranked in terms of shogi power level and also given a moveset and put on the same board together".
reminds me of middle school, nostalgic.
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