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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.

Seongmo Yoon wrote on Fri, Jan 30, 2004 05:43 AM UTC:
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.

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They are two totally different Chinese Chracters.

Good luck,

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Feb 2, 2004 09:04 AM UTC:
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.

Rick Knowlton wrote on Sat, Feb 28, 2004 11:13 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
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!

John Lawson wrote on Mon, Mar 1, 2004 12:07 AM UTC:
The pieces are in the 'standard' arrangement, with the Horses next to the Chariots.

Seongmo Yoon wrote on Wed, Mar 3, 2004 06:07 PM UTC:
e-mail discussions for janggi

http://www.topica.com/lists/janggi


Send a message to the forum
Then I send you a screenshot jpg for the post popular initial setting of
janggi

Seongmo Yoon wrote on Tue, May 4, 2004 06:55 AM UTC:
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

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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)

Anonymous wrote on Wed, May 19, 2004 12:46 AM UTC:
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.

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 02:54 AM UTC:
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.

Jose Carrillo wrote on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 07:52 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
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 Duniho wrote on Thu, Jun 3, 2004 04:35 PM UTC:
No, I'm going to do it right or not at all.

Jose Carrillo wrote on Fri, Jun 4, 2004 10:57 PM UTC:
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

🕸📝Fergus Duniho wrote on Fri, Jun 4, 2004 11:24 PM UTC:
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.

Eliott Joo wrote on Wed, Jun 9, 2004 08:44 PM UTC:
I play korean chess, and the pieces on a real board are octagonagal with chinese characters.

Tony Quintanilla wrote on Wed, Jun 9, 2004 09:16 PM UTC:
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

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Mar 30, 2005 07:25 PM UTC:
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.

Jeff wrote on Mon, Jul 11, 2005 02:30 PM UTC:
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

Nathan Guannan Zhang wrote on Thu, Oct 27, 2005 04:24 PM UTC:
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!

Anonymous wrote on Sat, Feb 11, 2006 05:25 PM UTC:
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/

chris wrote on Thu, Mar 23, 2006 03:13 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
If you use your horse to checkmate your opponent and your general faces the opponent's general, could it be a draw?

Anonymous wrote on Sat, Mar 25, 2006 02:48 PM UTC:
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.

Christine Bagley-Jones wrote on Sun, Jun 18, 2006 05:56 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
oh this should be rated better than good!

Anonymous wrote on Fri, Jun 23, 2006 04:04 PM UTC:
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

Anonymous wrote on Wed, Sep 6, 2006 01:44 AM UTC:
netian went out of business while I did not pay attention to it.
The game fils are not downloadable any longer.

Alfred Pfeiffer wrote on Mon, Nov 6, 2006 11:06 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
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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