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Little-Mage / ShogiGUI-piece-sets

All types of piece sets included plus boards and stands.
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Make sets with Extra pieces #2

Open Little-Mage opened 4 years ago

Little-Mage commented 4 years ago

Not everyone is Catholic or Christian. I made bishops with movement arrows to replace the cross because i saw someone saying something similar about hidetchi's bishop. The arrows however look blurry on shogiGUI.

Little-Mage commented 4 years ago

Maybe a whole new piece can be used thats not inspired by the bishop. Like an angle goer which is the translation for the kanji of the bishop although I have no clue how to design a piece that looks decent with that base.

aphirst commented 4 years ago

Maybe you could use the other interpretation of 角, which is something like "animal horn" (interesting btw how that relates to angles, eh) ... "horned chariot", perhaps?

Little-Mage commented 4 years ago

Yes I saw hidetchi's video again the one about the origin of the kanjis used on the pieces, maybe I'll rewatch the part where he talks about the bishop and an idea might spark.

Little-Mage commented 4 years ago

I discussed with vlad and he helped come up with the idea to use an elephant i think its reasonable since elephants have horns and also its more relate-able to its promotion the dragon horse because both are animals; although, I'm not 100% convinced.

aphirst commented 4 years ago

I mean, elephants relate to bishops as far as historical piece developments are concerned, right? Also, elephants are used for the bishops in doubutsu shogi. It should be fine, even though it does seem a bit weird. Mull on it for a while, maybe.

Little-Mage commented 4 years ago

I think horns is not a good relationship to the bishop; although, the kanji may have originated from horns it doesn't have any relationship to the current meaning of the kanji which is "angle", but for the meantime I'll use an Elephant for the bishop. There's also the possibility of using a ninja star since it points in the 4 directions the bishop can move, but then the issue of notation comes into play the Bishop even in shogi is pretty much standardized to be a B and Shuriken, ninja star, or elephant start with B.

Little-Mage commented 4 years ago

Elephant has been made but is currently in no set. A set could be made that replaces both the rook and bishop for tower and elephant

Little-Mage commented 3 years ago

https://github.com/ornicar/lila/blob/master/COPYING.md