I don't know if the puritans will get me wrong, but I believe that there should be a ocidental version of the pieces for full Shogi…or, at least, a simplified version of the japanese ideograms…

There is. It's what I see when I'm playing. Not sure if it's a setting somewhere.

I've seen a printed (or copied) version of Let's catch the lion. With these pieces one can play on a large board too (if you know the rules, unlike me). Don't know if that helps.

I mean: There were animal versions of all pieces. There were cats and dogs too and maybe more.

If you mean an on the board edition of shogi .

http://shop.nekomado.com/products/detail.php?product_id=34

Jugular and urmaul, I mean a ocidental version in LG!

I see the pieces on LittleGolem as the shogi pieces I linked to from nekomado. Is that what you see or not?

Maybe you installed this (biggergolem) on Chrome?

Jugular, I understand your point, but what I meant was that Shogi (in LG) should have the same design of pieces as in Mini-Shogi!

Shogi has the japanese characters and Mini-shogi chess-like characters.

Carroll, I've installed the extension but I couldn't see any changes at all…

Sorry I was not clear. The extension gives you the Japanese characters pieces, so I thought maybe you installed it in the oast and forgot about it. In this case you should remove it to get back to European chess-like pieces…

Rbpompeu I have the same problem, mini shogi shows as westernized pieces, however 9x9 shogi has double Kanji.  I too would like to be able to see westernized pieces as an option, or even single Kanji as I find that much easier to see than double kanji. Did you have any success with changing settings??

Try my bookmark at http://www.amecy.com/lg_shogi.html .  If it doesn't work, try replacing each instance of background with backgroundImage .

Thanks tommah, I'll try that.

Rbpompeu my point is that I see the same pieces for both Mini Shogi and Shogi. I think I must have a setting somewhere that does that for me.

Jugular,I can only see westernizes pieces in mini shogi… couldn't find any setting to change that.

Tori Watson, no success at all…

Before the user interface changed at littlegolem, there was an option to select kanji shogi symbols or Hidetchi's international shogi symbols. Unfortunately the option disappeared in the “new” user interface. People have mentioned this in some other threads, but the option never returns… :/

Rbpompeu, Tommah . Not sure if I used the bookmark correctly Tommah, but I still can't get option to change pieces?

I changed my preference to Hidetchi pieces before the interface change, and I still have them.  No way to change them back now, but if I can use the optional pieces, then I would guess it should be easy enough to add this preference for all users…..I recommend you send messages to Richard M. if you want to see the optional pieces.  Hidetchi pieces are great!