The game is played like most other chess-like games, with the players making alternate moves. To avoid confusion, one side is known as "white" and the other as "black". Pieces point forward to indicate the ownership. The pieces in Tai Shogi are flat and wedge shaped, with a uniform colour and the names printed in Japanese (the promoted value written in a different colour on the opposite side). The game is played on a 25x25 square board, and each player manipulates 177 pieces. Counting promotion values, one hundred and one different values exist in this game. This huge game is played on a twenty-five by twenty-five board and each player has a grand total of one hundred seventy-seven pieces. Tai Shogi has been invented by some recreational megalomaniac and for good reason. This game was probably invented before the end of the sixteenth century. Tai Shogi has the notoriety of being the largest known historic chess variant in the world.
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