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Shogi
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The earliest predecessor of the game, chaturanga, originated in India in the 6th century. Shogi was the earliest chess variant to allow captured pieces to be returned to the board by the capturing player, david Pritchard compares this rule to the practice of 16th century mercenaries switching loyalties when captured. Two players, Sente 先手 and Gote 後手, play on a board composed of rectangles in a grid of 9 ranks by 9 files, the rectangles are undifferentiated by marking or color. The board is always rectangular, square boards are uncommon. Pairs of dots mark the promotion zones. Each player has a set of 20 wedge-shaped pieces of different sizes. Except for the kings, opposing pieces are undifferentiated by marking or color, pieces face forward, this shows who controls the piece during play. Each piece has its name written on its surface in the form of two kanji, usually in black ink, following is a table of the pieces with their Japanese representations and English equivalents. The abbreviations are used for game notation and often referring to the pieces in speech in Japanese. * The kanji 竜 is a form of 龍. English speakers sometimes refer to promoted bishops as horses and promoted rooks as dragons, after their Japanese names, silver generals and gold generals are commonly referred to simply as silvers and golds. The characters inscribed on the sides of the pieces to indicate promotion may be in red ink. The characters on the backs of the pieces that promote to gold generals are cursive variants of 金 gold and these cursive forms have these equivalents in print, 全 for promoted silver, 今 for promoted knight, 仝 for promoted lance, and 个 for promoted pawn. The suggestion that the Japanese characters have deterred Western players from learning shogi has led to Westernized or international pieces which use iconic symbols instead of characters. Most players soon learn to recognize the characters, however, partially because the pieces are already iconic by size. As a result, Westernized pieces have never become popular, bilingual pieces with both Japanese characters and English captions have been developed as have pieces with animal cartoons. Each player sets up his pieces facing forward and that is, the first rank is or In the second rank, each player places, the bishop in the same file as the left knight, the rook in the same file as the right knight. In the third rank, the nine pawns are placed one per file, traditionally, the order of placing the pieces on the board is determined
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Evernote
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Evernote is a cross-platform, freemium app designed for note taking, organizing, and archiving. It is developed by the Evernote Corporation, a company headquartered in Redwood City. The app allows users to create a note which can be a piece of formatted text, a webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph. Notes can also have file attachments, notebooks can be added to a stack while notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported as part of a notebook. Evernote supports the majority of operating system platforms and also offers online synchronization. Evernote is available in a version or a more restricted free version. Use of the service is free up to a certain monthly usage limit, with additional monthly use reserved for Plus subscribers. Founded by Stepan Pachikov, the Evernote web service launched into open beta on June 24,2008, in October 2010, under former CEO Phil Libin, the company raised a US$20 million funding round led by DoCoMo Capital with participation from Morgenthaler Ventures and Sequoia Capital. Since then, the company raised an additional $50 million in funding led by Sequoia Capital and Morgenthaler Ventures, on November 30,2012, Evernote raised another $85 million in funding led by AGC Equity Partners/m8 Capital and Valiant Capital Partners. On November 9,2014, Evernote raised an additional $20 million in funding from Nikkei, linda Kozlowski was named the Chief Operating Officer of Evernote in June 2015. Kozlowski has been with Evernote for more than two years and held the title of Vice President of worldwide operations within the company, Libin stepped down as CEO in July 2015 and was replaced by former Google Glass executive Chris ONeill. In October 2015, the Evernote Corp. announced that the company is laying off 18% of its workforce, on May 7,2013, TechCrunch reported that Evernote launched Yinxiang Biji Business into the Chinese market at the Global Mobile Internet Conference. In 2010, the language for the suite was changed from C# for version 3.5 to C++ in version 4.0 to improve performance. As well as the entry of typed notes, Evernote supports image capture from cameras on supported devices. In some situations, text appears in captured images can be recognized using OCR. Evernote also supports touch and tablet screens with handwriting recognition, Evernote web-clipping plugins are available for the most popular Internet browsers that allow marked sections of webpages to be captured and clipped to Evernote. If no section of a webpage has been highlighted, Evernote can clip the full page, Evernote also supports the ability to e-mail notes to the service, allowing for automated note entry via e-mail rules or filters. Where suitable hardware is available, Evernote can automatically add geolocation tags to notes, the online service also allows selected files to be shared for viewing and editing by other users, and allows integration with Twitter for storing or forwarding tweets
