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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]
Sam wrote on Thu, Jun 27, 2002 11:55 PM UTC:Poor ★Nice page, but it has no history in it. Why are some pieces smaller then others. Tell us. Thank you.
Shawn wrote on Sat, Jul 20, 2002 09:04 AM UTC:Good ★★★★Hello, nice site. I read your instructions and they were enough to get me playing my first game without too many problems! 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.
new wrote on Fri, Jul 26, 2002 08:58 PM UTC:Try kr.games.yahoo.com.
Sam Lam wrote on Sat, Nov 16, 2002 05:37 AM UTC:Good ★★★★I want to learn to play Korean chess and this site gives me a good introduction. But point 7. b) and 8. make me confused. For point 7. b), if my opponent captures one of my pieces and thus his king faces my king nakedly, then I will be in advantage and I will not be willing to let him draw. Is it a rule that it is a draw game under that suitation ? For point 8., can a soldier (or pawn) move backward from row 10 to row 9 by moving through the diagonal line in the enemy's fortess ? Please answer me, my e-mail is assam@cityu.edu.hk. Thanks a lot.
ian stanley wrote on Tue, Dec 3, 2002 11:15 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★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
Kev wrote on Wed, Jan 8, 2003 10:31 PM UTC:Good ★★★★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.
Charles Gilman wrote on Sun, Apr 13, 2003 09:54 AM UTC:A small point on 'If your opponent captures one of your pieces and thus his king is facing your king nakedly'. A piece cannot make the Kings face each other by capturing an intervening piece, as it in turn BECOMES an intervening piece. You can do it by moving the intervening piece but whether that piece captures another piece (as long as it is non-intervening) is irrelevant.
Oddball wrote on Thu, May 1, 2003 02:13 PM UTC:Good ★★★★I'm living in Korea now, and am learning from a couple of experienced Korean players. They told me that the initial placement of the Horse (Ma) and Elephand (Sahng) are reversible. That is, as long as they are opposite their opponent's piece of the same rank. Any insights about that?
Simon Spalding wrote on Fri, May 9, 2003 07:05 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★Bravo to this author as well as to Roleigh Martin for making instructions for the game available in English! As anyone interested in East Asian Chess variants will have found, Korean Chess is much harder to find (instructions or equipment) than Xiangqi or Shogi. Supermarkets in Korean neighborhoods of Southern California often stock cheap pieces, occasionally stock cheap composition boards (made by www.7brothers.com, who are primarily a Go/Weiqi board maker), but I have yet to find a source for nicer-but-not-too-expensive equipment. Hint to those seeking equipment: bring a drawing of the board and pieces with you to show the shop clerks what you are looking for. Has anybody found nicer-quality equipment for sale outside Korea? E-mail me at sspalding@tryonpalace.org, please!
Jay wrote on Sun, Aug 17, 2003 04:15 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★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
This is the official homepage of Korean Chess Association
<p>It is only in Korean now
<p>http://www.kja.or.kr
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'
Hi,
I have uploaded one of the most popular janggi (Korean chess) opennings
http://myhome.naver.com/dajava/janggi/popular1.html
It is 404 k bytes.
You can <a href=http://myhome.naver.com/dajava/janggi/popular1.swf>download</a> and play it with Swiff Player from www.globfx.com
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 ...'
Seongmo Yoon wrote on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 08:16 AM UTC: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
You can download very strong Janggi program from
<a href='http://myhome.naver.com/yhzcpu'>myhome.naver.com/yhzcpu.</a>
<br>This site was originally created and maintained by Seongmo Yoon.
Seongmo Yoon wrote on Fri, Nov 7, 2003 07:51 AM UTC: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
Seongmo Yoon wrote on Fri, Nov 7, 2003 08:14 AM UTC: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..................... wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2003 08:16 AM UTC:Good ★★★★e-mail discussions for janggi http://www.topica.com/lists/janggi
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.
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
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
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?
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