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Try kr.games.yahoo.com.
Anybody know of a supplier of korean chess sets - i have been playing for a number of months on the computer or with my chinese chess set - but want the real thing for my collection? ian_stanley@bigfoot.com
The (plastic) sets can be purchased at your local Korean grocery or gift stores. Search the yellow pages. Bit-Jang, or one king calling a 'check' on the opponent king, as explained 'naked path between two kings', means 'check to tie'. If your opponent captures one of your pieces and thus his king is facing your king nakedly, then his king is 'checking to tie' your king. If you do NOT want the tie, then you must be out of the naked path by either putting a piece in between kings or changing the king's position side ways. If you do agree to tie, then the game is declared stalemate/tie. A soldier (or pawn) cannot move backward from row 10 to row 9 by moving through the diagonal line in the enemy's fortess. Usually, there are three sizes to pieces. Kings are largest. Cha (chariott), Po (Cannon), Ma (Horse/Knight), Sang (Elephant) are all considered officers and medium sized. Jol/Byung (pawns) and Sa (guards) are soldiers and the smallest.
International chess has a rule of thumb values of the chess pieces. Like Knight and Bishops are equal to 3 pawns, Rooks are about 5 worth. Queen is worth 9 etc. Korean chess has some references like the Elephant(Sang) is worth 2 pawns (Jol) or one guard (Sa). Anyone know what the Cha,Po,Ma,Sang are worth in comparison values ?
cha (car) rook : 13 points poe cannon : 7 ma horse knight : 5 sang (elephant) xiang bishop : 3 sah guard : 3 byoung, chol pawn : 2 -------------------------------------------- Is this what you want? dajava@naver.com
a commnet here : 2002-06-27 Sam Poor Nice page, but it has no history in it. Why are some pieces smaller then others. Tell us. Thank you. my reply : I copied the history of Korean chess (=janggi) form official homepage of Korea Janggi Association to here http://myhome.naver.com/dajava/historyofjanggi.html It is only in Korean and is there anyone who wants to try this page with an automated Korean to English translator?
a message here : 2003-05-09 Simon Spalding -- snip - occasionally stock cheap composition boards (made by www.7brothers.com, who are primarily a Go/Weiqi board maker) --- snip - my comment : it is http://www.6brothers.com
Hello, 'bada Janggi' is a freeware with which you can play a Korean chess game against a computer. It runs on PC with windows 3.1 or above with 1 M ram It uses usual janggi rules except that it does not recognize 'bik jang' (= faced Kings) Downloading link is here http://dcslab.snu.ac.kr/~nirsys/bada16.zip Screen shot is here. http://dcslab.snu.ac.kr/~nirsys/image/bada.jpg a Quick and dirty manual by me is : F5 : New game F7 : load a saved game F8 : save a game Alt+F4 : Exit P.S. Its author calls it 'bada janggi' as he was a college student near a 'bada' (=Ocean). In my understanding, he went to 'Busan University'
You can download and play it with Swiff Player from www.globfx.com ------------------------------------------------ Oops ! You have to right-click on 'download' and choose 'save as ...'
Another popular janggi opening is here http://myhome.naver.com/dajava/janggi/popular2.html Pay attention to the way two blue army horses support each other like 'beloved birds' The opening strategy by blue army is called 'Beloved birds' opening.
You can pay a Korean chess with a computer here It is a Java applet loaed into Explorer http://www.fungame.pe.kr/javagame/janggi/janggi.htm
a new Korean chess playing software with English menus and English pieces It is a freeware (beta version) It runs on Windows. http://myhome.hanafos.com/~yatari/janggi/jk.zip
http://myhome.hanafos.com/~yatari/janggi/jk.html Visit here and use left mouse button or right mouse button to download jk.zip
Hi, Mr. Kim, kyungjoong got the 3rd KBS Janggi Wang cup ('wang' = king) Blue army player in this game is Mr. Kim, kyungjoong He has all the Pro Janggi tournament titles in South Korea I uploaded a link here http://myhome.hanafos.com/~yatari/janggi/bestpro.html I used IE 6.0 on Windows One hour a game.
e-mail discussions for janggi http://www.topica.com/lists/janggi
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,
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
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
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
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
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/
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.
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
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
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.
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).
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.free printable janggi board and pieces http://imugi2.com.ne.kr/janggipieces.htm
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?
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