Yokai Shogi Arrives for Halloween! CouchTomato87 2026-10-31 86 views en New variants Hey everyone, Couch Tomato here! It's been a very long while since I added a new variant. I've made many western chess-based variants, but I've never made one of xiangqi or shogi. I decided to make an interruption to my hiatus by making a shogi variant, Yokai Shogi. My goal was to harness of the wild nature of Tori Shogi but taking place on a classic 9x9 board to give more breathing room. A lot of pieces used in Yokai Shogi are consequently loosely related to the standard Shogi pieces but have their own unique roles. As for the Yokai part, the yokai are traditional/folktale Japanese monsters, many of which you probably have seen found their way into modern pop culture. The set is even completed with a creepy haunted shogi board that you can also use for standard Shogi! Please be sure to read [the rules](https://www.pychess.org/variants/yokai) before you play because all the pieces are new and somewhat complex. It will be *much* faster to read about the game than *winging it*.  We hope you can channel the Halloween spirit with this variant! -Couch Tomato Discuss this blog post in the forum 6 Likes You may also like The Winner Is Announcing the results of the variant design contest Variant Design Contest Create the best chess variant! Designing Internationalized Pieces for Eastern Forms of Chess My thought process on board game visual design
