>Have you ever played Shogi? It's Japanese chess and has a really interesting twist. If you've played, you know what I'm talking about, but if not, the idea is that all the pieces on the board are the same colour. They are flattish and sort of an elongated pentagon. You know which are your pieces by the direction in which they point. The reason they are all the same colour is that when you capture a piece, it is not actually dead as it is in 'Western' Chess. Rather than being dead, it is now yours. It is truly captured (and 'turned'), not killed. You may, at any point in the game you deem advantageous, and within certain strict rules, drop the piece onto the board whereever you like. It is now one of yours. That means that strategically, you need to watch, not just the pieces on the board, but also the pieces off the board.
No, I never played that one, but it sounds interesting.
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