[mikk_w]

I agree that promotions are an important part of what makes Shogi work so well. As I mentioned in the article, I see there are two ways to make drop chess work - either build a game around weak pieces, or make the king more nimble. I think Shogi has perfected the first approach. I love Shogi. I don't want to reinvent Shogi. But there's something that I love about Western Chess: I love knights, bishops, rooks, and queens. I also like the pawn structures it has. I like Western Chess, but I don't love it the way I love Go or Shogi. My goal is to create a version of chess that I love, and has the knights, bishops, rooks, and pawn structures that I love. This is my current best guess at what that looks like.

[29athrowaway]

I do not like that pawns move forward but capture diagonally, or en-passant. I also do not like the teleportation that takes place during castling. I do not like that many pieces can cross the entire board (bishops, rooks, queens), and that they're so many of them.

I think shogi already took care of many of the things I do not like about western chess.