<Tr> <Th> Skill (s) required </Th> <Td> Strategy, tactics </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Synonym (s) </Th> <Td> Japanese chess Game of Generals </Td> </Tr> <P> Shogi (将棋, shōgi) (/ ˈʃoʊɡiː /, Japanese: (ɕo̞ːɡi) or (ɕo̞ːŋi)), also known as Japanese chess or the Game of Generals, is a two - player strategy board game in the same family as chess, chaturanga, makruk, shatranj, janggi and xiangqi, and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan . Shōgi means general's (shō 将) board game (gi 棋). </P> <P> The earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century . Shogi in its present form was played as early as the 16th century, while a direct ancestor without the drop rule was recorded from 1210 in a historical document Nichūreki, which is an edited copy of Shōchūreki and Kaichūreki from the late Heian period (c. 1120). </P>

Two player japanese board game similar to chess