Handicaps
Games between players of disparate strength are often played with handicaps. In a handicap game, one or more of White's pieces is removed before the start of play, and White plays the first move of the game. Note that the pieces removed at the beginning play no further part in the game - they are not available for drops. The imbalance created by this method of handicapping is not as strong as it is in chess, because material advantage is not as powerful in yari shogi as in chess.
Common handicaps, in increasing order of size, are as follows:
- Remove White's left yari bishop
- Remove White's left yari rook
- Two pieces: remove White's left yari rook and left yari bishop
- Four pieces: remove White's yari rooks and yari bishops
- Six pieces: remove White's yari rooks, yari bishops and yari knights
Other handicaps are also occasionally used. The relationship between handicaps and differences in rank is not universally agreed upon.
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