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Evidence for Taikyoku Shogi

1 pieces of evidence found.

Id DLP.Evidence.835
Type Contemporary rule description
Location Japan
Date 1603-01-01 - 1868-05-03
Rules 36x36 board.
Content "There is in Shogi Zushiki also mention of a 36x36 huge-board (taikyoku) shogi which, if it really existed, presumably belonged to this group too. Not surprisingly it is assumer that priests invented these games." Fairbairn 1981: 11.
Confidence 50
Source Fairbairn, J. 1981. Shogi history...and the variants. Shogi 27: 9–13.

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