Fairy chess piece for more than just a few piece types. One challenge of producing such a summary is that piece values are dependent upon the size of boards they are played on, and the combination of other pieces on the board. On an 8×8 board, the standard chess pieces (pawn, knight, bishop, rook, and queen) are usually given values of 1, 3, 3, 5, and 9 respectively. When the basic pieces wazir (W), ferz (F), and mann (WF = K), are played with a similar mix of pieces, they are typically valued at around 1, 1.5, and 3 points respectively. Three popular
Shogi notation P86 or P-8f. The notation format has the following 5 part structure: An example using all 5 parts is S72x83+ or S7bx8c+. All parts are obligatory except for the "origin" and "promotion" parts. (Thus, most notation strings only contain 3 parts.) The "origin" part is only indicated when needed to resolve ambiguity. The "promotion" part is only needed when there is the possibility of promotion. Western notation is not used in Japanese language texts, as it is no more concise than traditional notation with kanji and two ciphers which originated in the Edo period. The first letter represents the piece