Castle (shogi)
In shogi, castles (Japanese: 囲い, romanized: kakoi) are strong defensive configurations of pieces that protect the king (Japanese: 玉).
Left Mino Castle
☖ pieces in hand: –
| 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | |
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| 歩 | 歩 | 6 | |||||||
| 歩 | 角 | 歩 | 歩 | 7 | |||||
| 玉 | 銀 | 金 | 8 | ||||||
| 香 | 桂 | 金 | 9 |
☗ pieces in hand: –
In contrast to the special castling move in western chess, shogi castles are structures that require making multiple individual moves with more than one piece.
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