Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Cubic Shogi is a shogi variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec starting in 2000. The game developed from an early version (named Echos) in 1977, leading to chess variant Cubic Chess, then later to Cubic Shogi. The game substitutes cubes for the chess pieces, where the six faces of each cube display a different chess piece (pawn, knight, bishop, rook, general, and king). This provides an efficient means (rotating the cube on a square) to change a piece's type.Although shogi has not yet become popular in the larger community of players in Western countries, the East claims more than a million players. Its level nearly matches that of classical chess, but at the cost of some handicaps: slowness during the first half of the game, heavier focus on the names of pieces for same-colored men (which can be reminiscent of hieroglyphics for Western players), complex piece promotions and advancement including the absence of captured-piece retirement (classical chess has no such contemplative).A major tenet of Cubic Shogi is simplification without radical changes, while maintaining good gameplay. The variant Heian šogi with playing board 8×8 or 9×8 is the only shogi variant somewhat similar to Cubic Shogi; other variants are larger or smaller, have new units, or lack drops.. }
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- Cubic_Shogi abstract "Cubic Shogi is a shogi variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec starting in 2000. The game developed from an early version (named Echos) in 1977, leading to chess variant Cubic Chess, then later to Cubic Shogi. The game substitutes cubes for the chess pieces, where the six faces of each cube display a different chess piece (pawn, knight, bishop, rook, general, and king). This provides an efficient means (rotating the cube on a square) to change a piece's type.Although shogi has not yet become popular in the larger community of players in Western countries, the East claims more than a million players. Its level nearly matches that of classical chess, but at the cost of some handicaps: slowness during the first half of the game, heavier focus on the names of pieces for same-colored men (which can be reminiscent of hieroglyphics for Western players), complex piece promotions and advancement including the absence of captured-piece retirement (classical chess has no such contemplative).A major tenet of Cubic Shogi is simplification without radical changes, while maintaining good gameplay. The variant Heian šogi with playing board 8×8 or 9×8 is the only shogi variant somewhat similar to Cubic Shogi; other variants are larger or smaller, have new units, or lack drops.".