What is "euroshogi"

EuroShogi is a shogi variant invented by Vladimír Pribylinec starting in 2000. The game developed from an early version of chess variant Echos in 1977, leading to Cubic Chess, then later to Cubic Shogi, and finally to EuroShogi. Instead of classical units are used cubes that have a symbol on one side and on the opposite side have the same symbol by opposite colors, on the other side is a symbol of the promoted unit and on the opposite side the same symbol of opposite color, the last sides have no symbol - one is white and the other black.

A major tenet of EuroShogi is simplification without radical changes, while maintaining good gameplay. The variant Heian shogi with playing board 8×8 or 9×8 is the only shogi variant somewhat similar to EuroShogi; other variants are larger or smaller, have new units, or lack drops.