Shogi is a strategy board game. It's similar to chess, also known as Japanese chess. To describe this quickly, let's talk about main difference between Shogi and chess:
- Board is 9x9
- There is more pieces (King, Rook, Bishop, Gold General, Silver General, Knight, Lance, Pawn)
- Almost every pieces can be promoted (except King and Gold General)
- Promotion can be done while player move piece to/in oponnets area
- When a player capture a pieces - player can draps captured pices on board as players own (cost - turn)
- Pawns capture the same way they move
- There is no initial two-space pawn move and no en-passant move.
- There is no special castling move. There are a large number of possible defensive formations referred to as “castles” (see Sample game) but there is no need for special moves to create them.
- A given piece can only promote to one other kind of piece.
Game works without some rules:
- There is no promotion
- Can't drop captured pieces
- There is no draw rule "Sennichite" and "Jishogi"
- Player can't do illegal move
Builded AI machine is based on MinMax and AlphaBeta. Additionally there are some functions to optimalize number of searching moves. Evaluation is not taken into account.
