Sho-chan

Here's a small variant I found online that wasn't on Wikipedia.
Sho-chan

I'm particularly fond of it. Here's the starting setup:

S	G	K	G	S
_	_	_	_	_
_	P	P	P	_
_	p	p	p	_
_	_	_	_	_
s	g	k	g	s

The only promotion is pawns to gold on the last row.

I think that it'd be good for teaching new players shogi, because the gold and silver are generally the pieces which beginners have the most trouble with, in my experience.

w8 i'm confused the pawns are next to each other?

This set up certainly gives Sente the advantage...

hirohiigo wrote:This set up certainly gives Sente the advantage...

I'm not sure it does since double pawn is illegal and if Sente takes two pawns in the 1st and 3rd moves, then one of them will be not able to be captured by Gote's generals.

If double pawn is legal, then I agree that the set up gives Sente the advantage.