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<H3><A NAME="SEC9">The opening setup</A></H3>
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The opening setup for shogi is as follows:
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+--------------------------------------------+
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| wL | wN | wS | wG | wK | wG | wS | wN | wL | a
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+--------------------------------------------+
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| | wR | | | | | | wB | | b
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+--------------------------------------------+
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| wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | wP | c
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+--------------------------------------------+
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+--------------------------------------------+
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+--------------------------------------------+
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+--------------------------------------------+
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| bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | bP | g
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+--------------------------------------------+
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| | bB | | | | | | bR | | h
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+--------------------------------------------+
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| bL | bN | bS | bG | bK | bG | bS | bN | bL | i
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+--------------------------------------------+
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Here, "b" stands for "black" and "w" stands for "white", so
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that, for instance, "bL" means "black lance". The numbers above the
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files and the letters to the right of the ranks represent the most
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common notation system used for shogi by westerners (the Japanese also
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use Arabic numerals for the files but use Japanese numerals for the
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