Diagrammatic Chess (Western, Chinese, Japanese) Options around the world?
Diagrammatic Chess (Western, Chinese, Japanese) Options around the world?
Diagrammatic Pieces define the pieces moves on the item itself. This removes the need to memorize the moveset to the symbol needed in many forms of chess
Western Chess - Maple Landmark
Wooden Pieces with the moves written on the bottom (so you have to lift them up to see)
Japanese Chess - Dobutsu Shogi (in the greenwood)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C5%8Dbutsu_sh%C5%8Dgi
Cute animals with the moves indicated by dots around the edge of the piece, probably the best diagrammatic set I've seen
Japanese Chess - Kumon Study Shogi set
Very similiar to dobutsu shogi, but with the original character written in the middle instead of a cute animal. The wood feels good in the hand
Eastern chess sets will often have "westernized" pieces, that are different non-language characters symbols, but still require people to memorize a symbol lookup table.
I'd love to find diagrammatic options for Chinese Chess (XongQi), but I haven't seen any - do you know of options?