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CHU SHOGI
DAI SHOGI

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About game

Chu shogi (Jap. 中将棋 chū shōgi or Middle Shogi) is a strategy board game played on the board 12×12.

Dai shogi (Jap. 大将棋 dai shōgi or Large Shogi) is a strategy board game played on the board 15×15.

 

"SHOGI CAFÉ"

ChuDo (Jap. 中道 chū dō or Middle Way) is a software for playing Chu shogi and Dai Shogi (WinXP and above) on the HaChu engine (author H.G.Muller). This program contains different AI levels, handicap games, adding random moves from AI side for reducing its powerness on starting game. Program also contains the Learning Mode (pieces and moves), interface customizing with possibility to create your own themes, also there are possibility to localize the program on other languages.

The latest version is - Version 0.3.187 from 03.11.2023 (Version history), development stopped.

Avaliable interface languages:

  • Russian (default language)
  • English (author of translation - Alex Trick)

    For installing the program enough is to unzip the archive, to run program - chudo.exe. For updating the program you can just replace existing files with new ones - the user settings and saved games wouldn't be changed or deleted.

     

    The interface of "Shogi Café"

     

     

    Available themes (pictures). For installing themes there is enough to unzip it (archive contains necessary directories) inside the installed directory with ChuDo program. You need to download themes once, they don't update:

    Forest Garden
    Marble Sand
    Snow Lounge
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    Maka-dai-dai-shogi

    Rule-file for Zillion Of Gamesfor variant 19×19 "Maka-dai-dai-shogi", as well as a detailed description of the rules in PDF format, can be downloaded here (attention - all in russian only).