The 8-Piece (八枚落ち hachimai-ochi) handicap in shogi has both of White's major pieces, the rook and the bishop, removed as well as their lances, knights, and silvers.
Unlike the larger 10-Piece and 9-Piece handicaps, the 8-Piece is more balanced with White having the minimum number of pieces needed to defend their line of pawns from Black's early bishop attacks.
Additionally, once the bishop is mobile, Black may also threaten White's right edge pawn on 93.
If these two points are not defended properly, then Black will succeed in breaching White's camp very early in the game.
Additionally, Black is also threatening to move their bishop to 66 attacking White's edge.
(Nonetheless, there are still many other plans Black could use against White also including Ranging Rook strategies.)
Black pushes their central pawn in order to allow the bishop to move to the 57 square.
After the initial three moves (1...G-32 2.P-76 G-72), the general strategy for Black that professional player Kazuharu Shoshi recommends is to activate both the bishop and the rook and start a Climbing Silver attack (下手棒銀戦法 shitate bōgin senpō).
The general idea of Climbing Silver to create an attack with their (second file) rook pawn, right silver, and supporting rook with the bishop also thrown in for good measure (which was activated by opening the bishop diagonal with the 2.P-76 pawn push).
This position allows the king to flee sooner from Black's attack (compared to 3...K-42 as shown in the following subsection), which will happen on the left side of the board (Shoshi 2000).
This means that White will be moving his king to where Black's Climbing Silver attack will occur (Shoshi 2000).