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Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.
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Ah. The menu doesn't warn for that, though. It says: "[Play] someone at the same location, using the screen as a shared board.". Not "[Play] someone at the same location, using a phone as a shared board." I tried it on a phone now, and it isn't really a big improvement. I understand now why there is a small replica of the "Past moves", because at least that is visible directly under the board, on such a small screen. The message 'Enter next leg' is still presented in an extremely awkward way, though. I don't know how to make screenshots on that phone, but it is sharing the width of the screen with the CAPTURED PIECES header (which has a much larger typeface), so that it is squeezed into 5 lines above each other. The "Legal moves displayed. Might enforce rules." line, which at that stage has become completely useless, is still separating all the useful info from the board image. I understand that phones are awkward in general, and require economizing on almost everything, but it seems it should be possible to do (a lot) better than this...
The problem with the "[Move] pieces by yourself on a desktop PC" is that it is practically unusable, because it flips the position every move. I couldn't find any control in the menu to switch that off. This is why Play mode works much better, even on a desktop.