4-Piece handicap

4-Piece

☖ pieces in hand: –

9	8	7	6	5	4	3	2	1
	桂	銀	金	王	金	銀	桂		1
									2
歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	3
									4
									5
									6
歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	歩	7
	角						飛		8
香	桂	銀	金	玉	金	銀	桂	香	9

☗ pieces in hand: –

The 4-Piece (四枚落ち yonmai-ochi) handicap in shogi has both of White's major pieces, the rook (飛) and the bishop (角), removed as well as their lances (香). Thus, White is left with pawns, golds, silvers, and knights.

Black has the usual setup of twenty pieces.

The 4-Piece handicap is an official handicap of the Japan Shogi Association.

Openings

Climbing Silver

Climbing Gold

References

Bibliography

Fairbairn, John (1980). "Handicap series No. 6: Four piece handicap". Shogi (23): 6–7.
Hodges, George, ed. (1979). "Historical game: 4 piece handicap". Shogi (20): 8–9. · irregular game from 1756
Hodges, George, ed. (1981). "Professional overwhelms". Shogi (30): 2. · 4-Piece handicap games from 1981
Hodges, George, ed. (1981). "Aono visits Netherlands". Shogi (32): 18. · Rook & Lance, 2-Piece, 4-Piece, and 6-Piece handicap games from 1981
Hodges, George, ed. (1981). "Kaufman visits Japan". Shogi (33): 9. · Rook and 4-Piece handicap games from 1981 with commentary by Larry Kaufman
Hosking, Tony (1996). The art of shogi. The Shogi Foundation. ISBN 978-0-95310-890-9.
Kaufman, Larry (1983). "New ideas in handicap openings". Shogi (42): 13–15.
所司, 和晴 (2000). 駒落ち定跡. 毎日コミュニケーションズ. ISBN 4-8197-0209-2.
Kitao, Madoka (2012). Edge attack at a glance. Translated by Kawasaki, Tomohide. Nekomado. ISBN 978-4-9052-2502-7.

External links

Handicap Series by Larry Kaufman:
- Four piece part 1: Climbing gold or silver
- Four piece part 2: Alternatives
YouTube: How To Play Shogi (将棋): Lesson 25: Handicapped Games (1/2) by HIDETCHI from 9:02

Shogi Openings

Static Rook

Right Fourth File Rook
Static Bishop Left Mino
Right King
Snowroof
Sleeve Rook
First File Rook
Reclining Silver
Climbing Silver
Climbing Gold
Ureshino
Extreme Rushing Silver
Duck
Feint Static Rook

Double Static Rook

Fortress	Double Fortress Spearing the Sparrow Morishita System Central Rook Fortress Waki System Akutsu Rapid Attack vs Right Fourth Rook Yonenaga Rapid Attack Ninja Silver Crab Silvers
Double Wing	Floating Rook Retreating Rook Primitive Climbing Silver Tsukada Special Twisting Rook Rook on Pawn No Guard
Bishop Exchange	Reclining Silver (Kimura joseki, G48 R29) Rushing Silver Climbing Silver Tempo Loss Wrong Diagonal
Side Pawn	B-33 Rapid Attack B33 B45 Double Side Pawn P*23 N-33 Rapid Attack K-41 Aono Rx33+

Counter-Ranging Rook

Static Rook Bear-in-the-hole Maruyama Vaccine Iijima Bishop Pullback Straight Line Bear-in-the-hole King's Head Vanguard Pawn Subway Rook Left King Takada System Center Vanguard Pawn Central Rook vs Side Pawn
Rapid Attack	Left S-57 Rapid Attack Yamada joseki Saginomiya joseki Ponpon Knight Spearing the Bird Super High Speed S-37 Three-Pawn Sacrifice

Ranging Rook

Bishop Head Pawn Feint Ranging Rook Twisting Rook Tonari Dokkan Rook
Central	Primitive Central Rook Cheerful Central Rook Silver Horns Bear-in-the-hole Central Rook Edge Bishop Flatfish Central Rook Fortress Central Rook vs Side Pawn
Fourth File	Fujii System Bear-in-the-hole Fourth File Rook King's Head Silver Bishop Exchange Fourth File Rook Leghorn Special Tateishi Yōryū Fourth File Rook
Third File	Bear-in-the-hole Third File Rook Kōyan Manabe Ishida (Quick Ishida, 3–4–3, Fourth-to-Third, R-77) 1...R-32 1.R-78 Demon Slayer New Demon Slayer Tomahawk
Opposing	Sakata American B-33 Direct Ōno
Double Ranging	Opposing vs Third Double Third Double Opposing Opposing vs Fourth Opposing vs Central Double Central Left Bear-in-the-hole Central Rook