Original: Shogi , also known as Japanese chess , is a two-player board game in the same family as Western chess , chaturanga , and Chinese Xiangqi , and is the most popular of a family of chess variants native to Japan .
Simplified: It is a two-player board game in the same family as International chess , and Chinese Xiangqi . Shogi is the most popular of a family of chess variants , and is native to Japan .