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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]
Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Jan 19, 2004 11:27 AM UTC:Good ★★★★I notice that Byoung, one of the names for the Pawn equivalent, is similar to the Pyong of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. As North Korea is a Communist nation, which glorifies the common man, I wondered if there was any connection.
notice that Byoung, one of the names for the Pawn equivalent, is similar to the Pyong of Pyongyang, the North Korean capital. As North Korea is a Communist nation, which glorifies the common man, I wondered if there was any connection. ------------------------------- They are two totally different Chinese Chracters. Good luck,
Thanks to Seongmo Yoon for answering my previous question. My ignorance was because sometimes words get transliterated in two different ways. If they are genuinely different words to start with, I am happy to assume that they are unconnected.
I just realized that I don't know which are the horses and which are the elephants in the Korean chess set. In other forms of chess, the position on the board diagram indicates this, but because Korean chess allows the horses and elephants to be placed at the player's choice, just seeing the pieces laid out on the board doesn't necessarily tell which is which. I don't have any trouble with the one side, which looks like the characters from Chinese chess -- but the other side. So my question is this: Are the Korean characters on this page arranged in the standard Rook-knight-bishop-queen-king-queen-bishop-knight line-up? ...or not? Much thanks for the clarification!
The pieces are in the 'standard' arrangement, with the Horses next to the Chariots.
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my reply to Rick : http://210.150.246.43/game.hp/changi/1.html in the left site, the biggest (the first picture) shows Green army : rook, horse, elephant, aide, king, aide, elephant, horse, rook Red army : rook, elephant, horse, , aide, king, aide, , horse, elephant, rook ------------------------------------------- my comment : this is much more popular Green army : rook, elephant, horse, aide, king, aide, elephant, horse,rook Red army : rook, elephant, horse, aide, king, aide, elephant, horse, rook (horses face each other, elephants face each other)
Hello: I am wondering where I can download software that creates Jangki diagrams, such as the one Seongmyo Yoon linked below: http://210.150.246.43/game.hp/changi/1.html If you could provide a link to a website where I can download software that will allow me to make Jangki diagrams, I would appreciate it. Thank you in advance.
I'm looking for a webpage that lists in the Korean language the characters used for both sides of the pieces in Korean Chess. My intention is to use the Korean font displayed on my web browser to make pieces for Game Courier without stealing pieces someone else has already made. The closest I've found to what I'm looking for is this page: http://210.150.246.43/game.hp/changi/2.html It lists most of the characters used but not all of them.
Fergus, Thanks! I can't wait to play Korean Chess in Game Courier! As an option for the game pieces, maybe you can use the same Chinese characters you are using for Chinese Chess, but inside octagons, instead of circles. Jose
Fergus, What I meant to say was, use the Chinese characters as an option for the Piece Set that the players are allowed to use. For example, I don't have a Korean Chess set, but use a Chinese Chess set when I play Korean Chess over the board with my friends. We ignore that the river is there and voila! If I had the Piece Set choice, I definitely use the Chinese Chess set, as it was hard enough for me to learn the Chinese Characters in the first place (I'm Spanish). My oponents could choose to display the Korean characters, and I would use the Chinese, but we could still play each other and enjoy a game right away. Of course, if there is no choice, I would learn the Korean characters as well. You could also give as another choice the westernized characters in your Korean Chess rules webpage, for those that do not know Korean or Chinese characters, and want to try out Korean Chess. This way I'm sure you would get a lot more westerner players to enjoy the game. It was just a suggestion. Jose
If I make a Korean set, it will belong to the Chinese group, which includes both western and chinese character chinese sets. If I don't make a Korean set, I'll use the western set for Chinese and Korean Chess as the preset's default. Either way, you'll have the option of using the Chinese set. What I don't plan to do is make octagonal pieces that merely use the Chinese characters. If I make octagonal pieces, I'm going to do them right.
I play korean chess, and the pieces on a real board are octagonagal with chinese characters.
I am copying a comment made on a 'new' Korean Chess topic to this string: Good greeting to all the Korean chess lovers. I am a Korean-born Korean and an avid Korean chess player. I would like to post some useful information for those who wish to play and practice Korean chess on-line and off-line. There is a Korean Chess club in Yahoo! Korea Games. All you need is a Yahoo ID to log in. http://kr.games.yahoo.com/ http://kr.javagames.yahoo.com/games/login2.html?page=jg And I would like to introduce a great Korean Chess machine called 'JangGi Dosa', Dosa stands for a master or expert in Korean. Go to http://www.janggidosa.co.kr/ and download 'dosa.zip ÆÄÀÏÅ©±â 665 KB'. The rest is all yours. Any question or comments, e-mail at doi63@yahoo.com
In reference to Korean chess a.k.a. Changgi, I don't believe that you
mentioned the fact that for each player the common practice is on one
side,e.g.(red), that BOTH the knight and elephant on either the left or
right side but not both sides, are reversed and symmetrical to the center
(180 degree turn) and the other player (green) also reverses the knight
and elephant. There is no hard and fast rule on this but I suppose this
is
done so that the elephants don't get in each other's path when
attempting
to move them into play. It is quite common for players to sacrifice an
elephant for two soldiers (pawns).
<p>I play this game almost every week in the park in Elmhurst in the borough
of Queens (New York City). For those of you visiting NYC, it is adjacent
to the Elmhurst subway(train) station on the R,V, or G trains at the
Britton Ave end of the park as Chinese Chess is played at the 45th Avenue
side of the park. Most Sundays afternoons in the nice weather there are
one or two games of GO (a.k.a Baduk or Weiqi/Wei-Chi)in progress.
Hello, I am a Canadian who plays Changi 1-2 a week. I have been doing so for about a year and a half and simply love the game! I was wondering if there are any organized tournaments of Changi in Korea or in the States or Canada. Please email me at: shazaar@hotmail.com if you have any info! Cheers
I believe it is really appropriate for the red army to be knbown as 'HAN' because, after all, we Chinese call ourselves 'HANREN' or 'HAN peoples' and we are communist. Therefore i believe the creator of this game had a prophetically correct choice in calling the Red Army 'HAN'. Also, the Chinese name for red Korea is 'HANGUO' or 'HAN(2) GUO(2)' THis means Han country (no relation to CHinese 'HAN'). I beleive therefore it is extremely appropriate to call the red army han because trhe name and color come out being symbollic!
2005-07-11 Jeff None Hello, I am a Canadian who plays Changi 1-2 a week. I have been doing so for about a year and a half and simply love the game! I was wondering if there are any organized tournaments of Changi in Korea or in the States or Canada. Please email me at: shazaar@hotmail.com if you have any info! Cheers ------my reply from South Korea-------------------------------- http://www.kbs.co.kr/1tv/sisa/jangy/index.html http://www.braintv.co.kr/main.asp http://janggi.hangame.com/
If you use your horse to checkmate your opponent and your general faces the opponent's general, could it be a draw?
http://my.netian.com/~smyune/bikjang.html Red Army moved its Horse (Knight) from 65 to 77. Now, there are no pieces between two Kings. (Naked Kings). Blue Army can declare 'bik' (=draw) by capturing Red Army King with its King. This rule applys even if the case is a checkmate.
oh this should be rated better than good!
Hi, I uploaded pro players' official games here. http://my.netian.com/~smyune/kbsjanggikwang.zip size : 33.4KB Han : upper side Cho : lower side and make the first move
netian went out of business while I did not pay attention to it. The game fils are not downloadable any longer.
Precision to an entry in the section 'Books': Wurman, David: 'Chinesisches Schach, Koreanisches Schach'. Verlag Harry Deutsch, Franfurt am Main, Thun; 1991, ISBN 3-8171-1166-5
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