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A piece, a destination and a mark for dropping or promoting.
Also known as: Japanese chess notation, Drop notation
Shogi notation must record something chess notation never needs: a captured piece re-entering play on the capturing side. A drop is written with an asterisk, and promotion with a plus, so a single move can change which side a piece belongs to.
Records a move as a piece, a destination square and a marker for promotion or for dropping a captured piece.
Contexts: History
Must express the drop, in which a captured piece re-enters play under the capturing player's control, which has no equivalent in chess.
Contexts: History
Marks promotion with a plus sign, since almost every shogi piece can promote on reaching the far ranks.
Contexts: History
A letter, two numerals and sometimes a plus sign or an asterisk, written in a short group.