Instead of the classic figures, 18 black and 18 white cubes are used, which are on two opposing sides without symbols.

A major tenet of EuroShogi is simplification without radical changes, while maintaining good gameplay.

Composition of pieces per player: 1 king, 1 tower, 2 bishops, 2 generals, 2 knights, 8 pawns.

The EuroShogi knight has an additional extension: it can also move one square horizontally to the side.

A pawn and the knight, after entering into the promotion zone instantly obtain a general movement by rotating its cube.

Each player owns a stack for staging captured men, which are always stored not to promote.

This is achieved by rotating a cube: captured unit changes a colour and loses a promotion.

A player whose turn it is to move may either move a man on the chessboard, or drop any man from his stack on any vacant square, but a pawn may not be dropped on a file already containing a pawn of the same color.