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Janggi (also romanized as changgi or jangki), sometimes called Korean chess, is a strategy board game popular on the Korean Peninsula.The game was derived from xiangqi (Chinese chess), and is very similar to it, including the starting position of some of the pieces, and the 9×10 gameboard, but without the xiangqi "river" dividing the board horizontally in the middle.
A third-generation ethnic Korean, [1] Kim was born on April 5, 1986, in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, in the Soviet Union. [2] He learned chess from his grandfather, Nikolay Vladimirovich Kim, at four years old. When he was eleven, he won the Moscow Junior Championship. [1]
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Janggi (Korean chess; written 장기) Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title when written in Chinese characters .
The South Korean Chess Championship (Korean: 전국 체스 선수권 대회, Korea National Championship) is organized by the Korea Chess Federation, which was established in 2008 after FIDE negotiated an agreement between three rival organizations to unify into a single governing body for chess in South Korea.
Lee began playing chess at the age of 10. He is the highest-rated South Korean-born chess player and the first one to become an International Master. [2] He has won the South Korean Chess Championship in several years: 2014, [3] 2017, [4] and 2021. [5] In September 2018, he finished joint-third at the first Laos International Open. [6]