Comments by Niels van Ham

It may not be neccesary, but we could expand the set of allowed symbols, currently we have;

• Letters, upper- and lowercase, Numbers and Punctuation, may use shift

We could expand to use symbols like í, þ and £, which are all available on a regular keyboard, the special i's could get used for various "cases" of initial, removing the requirement of ii as a special i could take it's place. Edit: Though you'd need Alt Gr for the latter 2 symbols given.

At the current point, i don't really see it happening, since we still have quite some punctuation not yet used

Edit: Could we also have grouping of symbols to make things like c(QNN) for a capture-only Amazonrider

Somethings i want to note and some ideas

• gK should be able to be written as [jS?Q] but the latter moves completely different
• gQ4 i expected to be a grasshopper, not a lion, limited to 4 tiles in total, the case of up to 4 tiles after hurdle can be constructed using square brackets [gQ?Q3] (i think, doesn't work in the diagram on the page)

• h on it's own has no definition, something like relative half, from the halfling, could work
  • This does make left-only half impossible as lh and hl already have a meaning, you could use a punctuation like a comma , to seperate them so that the compound doesn't work, with this , you can make a move that's initial and non-leaping, but does not create e.p. rights i,n
• t could be used for checking if there's a piece there, adding c or d to specify enemy or ally piieces

I found an interesting method of applying a on the wikipedia page of Ko Shogi, where for example a4 means "up to 4 times", thus KaKaaK would be rewritten as a3K. You could also add an ! to indicate that it must use that exact amount of step, no more, no less. a!5W indicates exactly 5 Wazir moves
Note : In the context of Ko Shogi these multi-steps are allowed to capture a piece on every step, maybe we should do ac3 or another punctuation to indicate multi-capture or something else. This also means that a1 has no definition and a is a2. Edit: The new a, if it were to be defined as a2, would be defined as a combination of the old a and non-a move, which may be weird and or difficult to implement. The old a would be a!2

With this aa is opened up and i think a good idea for what it should be is "as many times as you want", based off the doubling of leaper atoms, which gives us the notation of the Dabbabante and the Ubi-Ubi, being aaD and aaN respectively

Even though it ignores the 4 part of the move, it still works as you describe it

Note : It also funny to say; "my adaubacfab"

Ok, hear me out, ni for not initial, not to be confused with in

Although some things are still missing like immobilization and hia power, also a question, can you make the (1,1)-Zigzag Nightrider, the one that goes b1-a3-c2-b4-d3, with this notation

Edit: We'd also need to be able to get copying of Defending Pieces, Your last moved piece, last captured piece, etc. for that [In] could work where n is replaced by other symbols for different copies, if we do that we wouldn't need M for Mirror

I actually liked the wikipedia version of it more, with t[FR] for the Griffon, F then R. And other symbols/compunds within [] changing their meaning, like [cr], [ca] and [cw] for rifle, approach and withdraw capture respectively. But this page does note other things like X, k, y and U

So... the furthest move would be GXY (8,5), wouldn't it?

That'd be nnNN, wouldn't it?