You guys could just read the rules, you know...
Some years ago I seriously tried to learn Shogi, bought myself a ban and a full set of koma, read a pretty big guidebook on it, the whole nine yard. A few months later and about $150 down, I still had no freaking idea how to play and never picked it up again (^^)
See, this is where you went wrong. Back in my childhood when I first stumbled on the rules in a book about various games, I just made the full set myself out of cardboard. ;)