Module talk:Shogi diagram

The change on 23 August replaced letters with numerals for row labels. I thought the western standard for shogi notation was to use letters to replace these Japanese numerals. --IanOsgood (talk) 23:15, 11 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]

There doesnt seem to be a standard. Obviously, there's no official standard since there's no western organization prescribing such things. But, de facto, seems like different folks use different notations.

Reasons for using numbers were (1) similarity to Japanese, (2) easier to process/translate from Japanese notation [this was my main bias in favor of two numbers], (3) more recent usage in published material, (4) less confusing for chess players. (See: Talk:Shogi/Archive_3#shogi_notation_on_wikipedia) – ishwar (speak) 01:17, 12 December 2017 (UTC)[reply]