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janggi
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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.
Key facts
- Game.italic title
- no
- Game.title
- Janggi
- Game.image
- Janggi.svg
- Game.image_size
- 280px
- Game.image_caption
- Janggi board and starting setup
- Game.players
- 2
- Game.setup_time
- < 1 minute
- Game.playing_time
- From 20 minutes to several hours
- Game.random_chance
- None
- Game.skills
- Strategy, tactics
- Korean name/auto.hangul
- 장기
- Korean name/auto.hanja
- 將棋
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Rules
- Board
- Pieces
- General
- Guards
- Horses
- Elephants
- Chariots
- Cannons
- Soldiers
- Setting up
- Ending the game
- Miscellaneous rules
- In South Korean culture
- Westernized variant
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
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.
Janggi is played on a board nine lines wide by ten lines long. The game is sometimes fast paced due to the jumping cannons and the long-range elephants, but professional games most often last over 150 moves and so are typically slower than those of Western chess.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “janggi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.