the Nostalgia of 超将棋 (Chou-Shogi)

when I was a little lete As a young child I remember the first time I was put in front of a chessboard that didn't quite look like the uninterrupted rank-and-file grids of western chess. There were no black-and-white spaces. There was a giant "X" where the King and Queen should have gone. And the King and Queen themselves were also nowhere to be found, replaced with flat, wafer-like pieces with…