This is the first problem in a small book I have, check-mate in 1 move.
The opponent’s King is in the back right corner of the board. You have a Pawn on the third row in front of it.
In your drop zone, you have a Rook, a Gold General and a Silver General available.
Please use the spoiler tag to post your answer :)
Solution
Drop Gold General in front of the King at 1二, protected by the Pawn at 1三.
Wrong moves:
- dropping the Rook at 1二, at 3一 or at 4一 lets the King escape to 2一,
- dropping the Silver General at 1二 lets the King escape to 2二
- dropping a Gold or Silver General at 2二 lets the King take General back at 2二, since it isn’t protected by the Pawn.
Reminder of the movements of the pieces:
Just one solution for this problem.
The game functions like chess, with 2 notable exceptions :
The concept of dropping pieces taken from the opponents exists in a 4 player variant of persian chess where 2 teams of 2 play each other, each team has a black and a white player, and anything taken by the white player from their black opponent is given to their black teammate, who can use it on their own board, and vice versa.
Edit: made the explanation a bit clearer
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Gold general to 2,2?
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King takes General :) in Shogi, Pawns only move 1 square forward, not diagonally