Small chu shogi - KaijiAUT vs dax00

This is a game of small chu shogi, to be played between @KaijiAUT and dax00.

Small chu shogi is played in the general way that chu shogi is played, except on a smaller board with fewer pieces, and with some rules altered to suit the board change, as follows:

• Promotion zones (enemy territory) are the last 3 ranks.
• Both pawns and go-betweens can promote on the last rank on a non-capture.
• If there are 119 consecutive moves with neither captures nor promotions, the game is automatically drawn.

KaijiAUT will have sente. よろしくお願いします。

よろしくお願いします。

7七歩

5七獅

4七歩

4七獅 would've been much more interesting

6六獅

On a regular 12×12 board, I would never have moved the corresponding pawn, but as things are here...

So far, I feel sente has a larger relative initial advantage than on the normal board. The pieces chosen, in this configuration, don't work as well as in normal chu shogi. This feels much more tactical, which is to my dissatisfaction.

I give regular chu shogi a score of 97/100, modern shogi a score of 91/100, FIDE chess a score of 84/100, and this a score of 68/100 (tentative).

8六仲

I feel especially the 麒 feels very weird in his starting position. But somewhat there is a bit of the spirit of chu shogi. I guess it is a good way to introduce chu shogi to play 1-2 games of this type first. Of course it can not compare with real chu shogi in beauty and balance.

9七歩

2七歩

I really haven't had much to choose from this entire game.

10七歩

5七馬