Taikyoku Shōgi Is A Chess-Like Game With Hundreds Of Pieces And Thousands Of Squares

from Cool Weird Awesome with Brady Carlson · host Brady Carlson

It's International Chess Day. In Japan, there’s a popular chess-like game known as shōgi, and one of the variants of that game is played on a scale that’s hard to even describe. Plus: designer Pierre Cardin celebrated the moon landing (on this day in 1969) with a moon dress. Armageddon (Futility Closet)Pierre Cardin’s Moon Dress (Weird Universe)Make a move over to our Patreon page and back this show

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