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Janggi - 장기 - Korean Chess. The variant of chess played in Korea. (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]According to Wurman ('Chinesisches Schach, Koreanisches Schach', 1991), Maynard ('Janggi Addenda', Abstract Games 15, Autumn 2003), and Pritchard (Encyclopedia of Chess Variants, 1994), a player can pass at any time, which means that rule 7c above is wrong.
I made a boring but informational film about Korean Chess. Americans who know how to play Chess might find it helpful, I plan on posting an example game soon. I hope someone finds this helpful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzlaaL5sRno
This is a good initiative as it is hard to obtain information about this game. Korean Chess is a game with greater strategical depth than Chinese Chess. The Korean Elephant is of particular interest. I implemented a strong Zillions version here. /Mats
Anonymous wrote on Tue, Jun 12, 2007 05:27 AM UTC:mms://210.221.200.86:4768 24 hours a day broadcasting for (Korean) chess with some commercial breaks. mostly in Korean.
Hello, nice site. I was just wondering of you knew of any places to play online, since I can't seem to access Korean game sites (they require some kind of Korean registration ID number that foreigners don't have). Let me know if you are aware of a place to play online. Thanks.
http://member.hangame.com/register/index.nhn?docref=http://id.hangame.com/wlogin.nhn?popup=false&adult=false&nxtURL=http%3A//janggi.hangame.com/
choose check two boxes with left buttons and
choose the right most button (the third one from left)
which doesn't require you to enter Korean
registration ID number.
http://www.hangame.co.jp in Japanese.
http://www.nhnusainc.com in English? Maybe.
I 'd like to introduce a new Korean chess playing freeware for MS Windows XP. http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=a840713&logNo=30027088697# (in Korean) http://mfiles.naver.net/6bbc5e8692cba7113b5b/data28/2008/1/28/136/jang-a840713.exe (right-click & 'save as' to download ) (He used visual studio 2005) File- S : begin File-x : eXit Drag & Drop to move pieces Right-click : undo He is a computer science major in South Korea. He titled this freeware 'Choding janggi' choding is a Korean slang for elememtary school kids. and you can guess that his software plays at an elementary level. :) I found out that it runs well under Linux. I tested with Ubuntu linux (a freeware) and codeweaves crossover games (a commercial software www.codeweavers.com/products) which is based on wine (http://www.winehq.org).
This game (and several others) have the lame knight and lame zebra (here elephant). That is both pieces are incapable of moving to destination if path is blocked.
For the elephant, one can easily add more possible pathways to destination square for example two diagonal and one orthogonal outwards.
Even worse would be to compound a zebra and camel and adding multiple paths - nothing new of course - (anyone can do this!).
Combining the knight and elephant here - and adding alternate paths, one gets the Sliding Sorcerer Knight used in experimental sub-variation of Herculean Chess
As used in Korean Chess, the Elephant /Knight as used here make for excellent play.
Even worse would be to compound a zebra and camel and adding multiple paths - nothing new of course - (anyone can do this!).
Patenting an already existing idea is truly an insult to the rich history of chess, but it has been done by a few. Fortunately, the few patents for pieces ( not sure how many are out there but one comes to mind) , are for awkward pieces proposed with even more clumsy configurations.
The patent and its well deserved criticism of course do not apply to excellent single function pieces such as the Elephant and Knight used here nor to the interesting Ferz-Camel compound used in Omega Chess nor for that matter the fascinating Ferz/Wazir Sorcerers in Hadean and Herculean Chess.Thanks for attention, Charles. Daniel expresses interesting opinions here. Daniel has missed prior topics showing USA, Canadian, UK, and French chess patents back to 1870's. Scrabble and Monopoly are originally patented. Verbosity like ''insult to rich history of Chess'' is so much uninformed babble. Precedents for Falcon include, besides this Changgi, Gala (13th Century), Novo Chess (1930's), problem piece Bison (1970's). There are two Camel-Bison-Knight compounds in 'ECV', one of course Maus' Cavalry Chess(1920's). There are about 6 and about 15 respectively of Knight-Zebra and Knight-Camel. All these I (hey the team WE) made USA Patent & Trademark Office aware of: fortunately Pritchard's book had just come out. The clauses ''anyone can...'' or ''one can easily add...'' or words to that effect are commonly applied to Patents jealously later. Why be devoting minds to this if it has no merit? A great idea is obvious after the fact, as Jeremy Good defends the Falcon innovation. Please ask Fourriere or Carlos about game play with three-path Falcon.
free printable janggi board and pieces http://imugi2.com.ne.kr/janggipieces.htm
free printable janggi boards/pieces in PDF format
free printable janggi boards/pieces in PDF format
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Hi, I find out that download link in this message is broken. ------------------------------------------------------- I 'd like to introduce a new Korean chess playing freeware for MS Windows XP. http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=a840713&logNo=30027088697# (in Korean) http://mfiles.naver.net/6bbc5e8692cba7113b5b/data28/2008/1/28/136/jang-a840713.exe (right-click & 'save as' to download ) (He used visual studio 2005) File- S : begin File-x : eXit Drag & Drop to move pieces Right-click : undo He is a computer science major in South Korea. He titled this freeware 'Choding janggi' choding is a Korean slang for elememtary school kids. and you can guess that his software plays at an elementary level. :) I found out that it runs well under Linux. I tested with Ubuntu linux (a freeware) and codeweaves crossover games (a commercial software www.codeweavers.com/products) which is based on wine (http://www.winehq.org). ----------------------------------------------------- So, visit here http://blog.naver.com/PostView.nhn?blogId=a840713&logNo=30027088697# And download it this way. http://imugi2.com.ne.kr/choding1.htm
[url deleted because archive is corrupt] The above zip file contains printable janggi pieces made in PDF documents. First, simply paint the letters of the pieces. Then you can fold along the dotted lines and use glue to form octogonal prism shape. Have fun!
How to procure the nice pieces shown on Jose Carillo's photograph on this comment page? Thanks.
It seems that the URL I have posted is deleted not because PDF files inside the zip files were corrupt, but rather because the files' names were in Korean texts, and English Window doesn't support Korean texts unless Korean texts were installed. Thus, I am reposting URL with new zip file that contains renamed English PDF files. http://yeo123.com.ne.kr/janggipieces.zip The above zip file contains printable janggi pieces made in PDF documents. First, simply paint the letters of the pieces. Then you can fold along the dotted lines and use glue to form octogonal prism shape. Have fun!
In N Korea, the initial positions of Rooks and Elepahnts are changed each other. It is a different opening setup. http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%BC:Yang_sang2.png
Hi I enjoy playing Changgi on this site,though I'm wondering :is there any provision to swap the the Elephants and Knights ,at the beginning if the game?
Yes, you can use the 'swap' command. Look at the text at the bottom of the Korean Chess Preset page: = = = To swap Elephants and Horses at the beginning of the game, use the swap command. For example, this will swap Elephants and Horses on both sides for Red, then move an Elephant. Follow each swap command with a semicolon, and use coordinates for its arguments. Use it only before your first move. swap b1 c1; swap g1 h1; E b1-d4
Jose, I challenge you to try the swap command. It doesn't work. I think three of us have tried to get it to work. Unless we are using the syntax incorrectly. Thanks, though!
>> In N Korea, the initial positions of Rooks and Elepahnts are changed each other. >> It is a different opening setup. >>http://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%BC:Yang_sang2.png Thanks Tu Ren Dong. Is it still legal to swap the Knights with the Elephants on the corners? Here is a Game Courier preset for the North Korean setup: http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DNorth+Korean+Chess%26settings%3Ddefault
You are right Nicholas. I tested the swap command and it was banned. Fergus can you fix it? Thanks. Meanwhile, this preset for Korean Chess: http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/play.php?game%3DKorean+Chess%26settings%3Dplain Doesn't enforce any rules, and will allow to swap the pieces.
>>How to procure the nice pieces shown on Jose Carillo's photograph on >>this comment page? Thanks. Jean-Louis Cazaux, My pieces just come from a regular plastic set of chess pieces. The Elephants are Seirawan Elephants. For the Cannons, I cut off the top portion of the Rooks from a 2nd set (I kept the top of the Rooks to glue on to Knights to make Chancellors). Finally I drilled holes on the headless Rooks to make them look like Cannons. Cheers, Jose
Please change link to Roleigh Martin's rule's page to here: http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/afi/koreanch.htm The link you have is dead. (the timelesseye link).
Here's a Korean Chess problem made from a game I played with Game Courier. I made this with Game Courier's new ability to turn positions in games into fairy chess problems.
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