The wild thing about this is that Shogi would make a much more reasonable middle picture than Go.
True. Shogi is played with chess clocks but from what I know about Go, it doesn't make much sense but I might be wrong tho.
The non-pointy sides are also sloped. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shogi#/media/File%3AShogi_Koma_Ryoko.jpg