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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.
Sanjangjanggi (三將象棋, 산장장기) is an janggi variant with an unusual rule. In sanjangjanggi, the king can escape check only by capturing the checking piece with the king in the next turn. In sanjangjanggi, the king can escape check only by capturing the checking piece with the king in the next turn.
List of Janggi variants; Shogi variant This page was last edited on 9 February 2024, at 16:35 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
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When played this way, the game is called Janggi-alkkagi. Baduk stones are round and double convex (shaped like a double convex lens), [2] while the Janggi stones are octagonal, so when Janggi stones collide with other Janggi stones, their trajectories change. Also, since there are three sizes of the Janggi stones, many more strategies are possible.
Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ i /, [1] Japanese:), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess, chaturanga, xiangqi, Indian chess, and janggi.
Janggi (Korea; see also janggi variants) Jungle (or Dou Shou Qi, The Jungle Game, Jungle Chess, Animals Chess, Oriental Chess, Children's Chess) (China) Main chator (Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines) Makruk (Thailand and Cambodia) Ouk Chatrang (Cambodia) Rek Chess (Cambodia) Samantsy (Madagascar) Senterej (Ethiopia and Eritrea) Shatar (Mongolia)
There are no hoppers in Western chess. In xiangqi (Chinese chess), the cannon captures as a hopper along rook lines (when not capturing, it is a (0,1)-rider which cannot jump, the same as a rook); in janggi (Korean chess), the cannon is a hopper along rook lines when moving or capturing, except it cannot jump another cannon, whether friendly or ...