Why are the arrow, bronze, silver, gold using hiragana rather than the proper kanji of those stuff like in shogi? (In shogi, a pawn promoted to gold general uses the same hiragana mentioned there, but gungi has no promotion, just front/back. I also notice that all of the pieces that do have hiragana in gungi are the back side of the pawn, but I still think it might be better to use kanji there.)
For making the pieces, what you might do is make them one side black and one side white, and the front sides will have a border or something like that perhaps. Alternatively just make it like in shogi with all pieces the same color, and you might make the writing on the back side in red.
Why are the arrow, bronze, silver, gold using hiragana rather than the proper kanji of those stuff like in shogi? (In shogi, a pawn promoted to gold general uses the same hiragana mentioned there, but gungi has no promotion, just front/back. I also notice that all of the pieces that do have hiragana in gungi are the back side of the pawn, but I still think it might be better to use kanji there.)
For making the pieces, what you might do is make them one side black and one side white, and the front sides will have a border or something like that perhaps. Alternatively just make it like in shogi with all pieces the same color, and you might make the writing on the back side in red.