From: Jeff Rollason <jeff.rollason <at> virgin <dot> net>
Date: 22 jan 2007
Subject: Captured pieces with computer Shogi


I am involved in a significant project that will be showing Shogi in rich
3D, and I have been posed a question about what to do with captured pieces.
This is targeted for the Japanese market.

We show the full square block board on four feet, with the two little
captured-piece tables. The natural thing to do is to try and arrange the
captured pieces in stacked rows on this board, but in the few pictures I
have seen of people playing, it seems that pieces seem to get dropped
chaotically on this table.

Is there any convention of how one is supposed to do this? What happens if
you have many captured pieces? leaving them randomly on the small table
provided makes it look like they might fall off, if not ordered well!

Any thoughts?

Jeff Rollason - CEO and founder
AI Factory Ltd - www.aifactory.co.uk
jeff.rollason <at> AIFactory <dot> co <dot> uk
jeff.rollason <at> virgin <dot> net
(+44) (0) 20 8866 7202  work
(+44) (0) 79 5638 4321  mobile


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