I asked developers of "Advanced Mega Daisen Shogi" that uses 50 pieces of 192 pieces for "Megumi Shogi"

"Tokyo Game Show 2016's indie corner was exhibited"Advanced Mega Chess Shogi"Is a game developed by Professor Takayuki Takami of Osaka Electro-Communication University Faculty of Computer Science. I went to ask Mimaka Shogi how he was actually with Mega Daisen Shogi of this game and asked Mr. Takami to reprint Mimaka Shogi actually to listen to the story.

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Professor Takayuki Takami of Osaka Electro-Communication University School of General Information, who developed Advanced Mega Daisen Shogi.


This is Mega Dai Shogi reprinted by Professor Takami. Both pieces and board face are made of cedar, and because it is large in size, it is custom made.


Mega Dai Shogi 's piece.


It seems that the character of the piece was written by a writer named Jiang Kwon-do. According to Professor Takami, there were many writers of shogi's pieces in the past, but now that few people are active.


Unlike modern shogi, the pieces are also made big.


It's amazingly amazing to arrange them all. There are many pieces that are not used in modern shogi.


The same thing as the shogi of modern shogi does the same movement, but the big difference is "how to do". For example, as soon as you take the opponent's piece turn it over and force it "will". Besides that there seems to be a little different way from modern shogi.


Incidentally, Mr. Oshika Shogi is a rule that, like a modern Japanese chess, "the one who took the giant is not losing", but "one who took the piece called Prince loses". "Prince" is a piece that "Diaton" will be above the grandmaster. If you do not become a prince, if you do not become a prince, you will lose if you are taken the giant, but if the dikes become a prince, the game will continue even if you are taken a grandmaster.


There is also a piece with animals such as "old rat" and "cat fork" in Mega Daisen Shogi. Although there are various opinions, Professor Takami is not the thing of the twelve children in the piece which treated animals "old rats, strong beef, blind tiger, horse, horse, dragon, Keima, blind bear, old monkey, huge chicken, bad wolf, I am thinking.


GIGAZINE (hereinafter, G):
First of all, please tell me what Professor Takami usually teaches in class.

Professor Tomonobu Takami (Takami):
I usually teach software, programming, hardware design, math and so on. When I was a student, I majored in geophysics and studied radar information processing etc.

G:
I usually teach things that seems to be less related to shogi. How did you come to know about Megumi Shogi?

Takami:
Originally I love shogi, shogi is getting the first stage. It was a coincidence that I learned about Mega Daisen Shogi, and I used to make a game using a big touch panel in one of the seminar studies. Using the floor as a touch panel, I was making a game that was reflected on the screen of the projector when stepping on the foot, but I was not able to make a similar game using a big table, When I was thinking about it, I tried to do a large shogi of 25 squares of shogi with a large table that senses touch operation with infrared radar.

G:
I see.

Takami:
Although the description of the large shogi appears in the old document for the first time in the 12th and 13th century as the second middle history, it is an old document established in the 12th and 13th century, but there is a concrete description about the rules and pieces of large shogi in 1443 It is the first time that a manuscript "Elephant Compounds Extract (Shougi - san - Bunsusho)" is copied. This old document includes 5 Shougaku (12 × 12), Shogi (15 × 15), Oshige Shogi (17 × 17), Mingzhai Da Shogi (19 × 19), Yongya Shogi (25 × 25) It is written about kinds of shogi.

Shogi is believed to have evolved from simple to complex as well as general theory of game evolution, from small to large. However, as I decrypted the old documents, I realized that the shogi actually evolved from small and complex scales to small and simple ones by cutting pieces off. This is also announced in the paper.

G:
Hmph.

Takami:
This was an important clue to reprinting the rule of the large shogi. At first I thought I would reprint the 25-year-old Year of the Year Shogi and put it in the game, but the Year of the Year's Shogi was overwhelmingly overpopulated and lacked fun. So, I decided to reprint the next big Mega Shogi.

G:
What was the interest of Professor Takami of Mega Daisen Shogi?

Takami:
A lot of parts came out saying, "Is this interpretation incorrect now?" While reading the elephant compilation classification which is written about Mega Oh shogi. However, changing the way of interpretation has made it clear that Mizunaga Shogi is an interesting shogi.

G:
Is it a feeling that inquiring mind has come to my mind?

Takami:
You're right. There is "dancing piece" as a characteristic of Mega Daisen Shogi, and movement of dancing piece is not written enough in the old document. In such a case, I will accumulate examination games and consider the movement of valid pieces. For example, although it can be interpreted that the description "2nd dance" progresses linearly 2nd, I think that "dancing" means "repeating", is not it? That's why, "dancing" has the meaning of "jumping in the vertical direction", which is different from rotating "dance". So, if you decipher an old document with "jumping in the vertical direction" as "repeating", you can interpret that "second eye dancing" repeats "go one step". Then, I realized that it is a very deeply thought-out game design where Ming Dai Shogi is established as a game.

One of the dancing pieces "Phoenix".


G:
Mega Daisen Shogi looks big and very complicated, but is that gameplay interesting too?

Takami:
Previously it was said that "Mega Daisen Shogi is too many pieces, so it was actually just a line of shogi that is not being played actually?", But when I looked it up I got a crispy piece and it was quick. I have learned that there is a game nature of deployment. Of course, there are also different views. When reading old documents many times, new things are noticed every time, but this is like a puzzle and it is very interesting.

G:
It is fun to understand new things the more you study. Do you actually play games too?

Takami:
I will play against my students. It takes about 2 hours if you do it in a single hour, but it will be more speedy when it's 20 minutes, so it's interesting. When you played in a time of 20 minutes, the range you see when you point to Shogi has become wider, and the way you point your fingers has changed completely. At first I thought that the game of the big screen touch panel ......, but when I noticed, it is very addicted to Mega Daisen Shogi.


G:
We have released the software "Advanced Mega Daisen Shogi", will we continue to study Mega Daisen Shogi in the future?

Takami:
Advanced Mega Osaka Shogi can not play the network game mode unless it releases the port at the router, but we are developing it so that we can play the network without opening the port now. I'm also studying the relationship between Persian Shogi and Shogi.

G:
Thank you for today.