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There was an ancient game I found an article on a few years back that I have been unable to find again. It (I believe) was an Asian game and had over 400 distin

• al_chemist 7y ago
  > over 400 distinct pieces, each with their own rules for movement I doubt it'd exist. It's hard to place 400 pieces on board, hard to remember 400 different movement patterns, it takes forever to setup the game. Shogi is asian game with 15 types of pieces.
  • mrob 7y ago
    There's this probably never widely played shogi variant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taikyoku_shogi "Each player has a set of 402 wedge-shaped pieces of 209 types. The players must remember 253 sets of moves."
    • navbaker 7y ago
      That’s it! Thank you!