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Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.
Check out Janggi (Korean Chess), our featured variant for December, 2024.
Back‐of‐the‐envelope translation:
This chess [variant] has a modified board of 73 squares.
The pieces in addition to the conventional ones are:
A Chancellor: Rook+Knight
The Omega which moves 2 diagonally and jumps to the seconddiagonal square; additionally it can jump to the 2nd square orthogonally with a piece in between.
Pawns are called Columns and can also move one square diagonally backwards in either direction if these are vacant
The king is an Emperor: King+Knight
Special Rules:
• Two pieces are moved per turn but only one capture may be made per turn
• A piece cannot move twice in one turn
• For every four pieces captures by a side, his opponent is obliged on his next turn to reintroduce one of the pieces he has captured on his side
• [Re‐]introduced pieces begin on any square on the 1st file of their side
• When a king [i.e. an emperor?] is in check he can escape mate by exchanging two pieces of hierarchy () [sic] for a change of position to an empty space (this is optional)
• The attacker chooses a piece and introduces it on his side; the attackee selects the other piece
As to the “two” corner squares, removing two squares from each corner of a 9×9 board does in fact leave 73 squares, though whether the second square is vertically or horizontally adjacent to the square in the corner remains unclear. Presumably the promised diagram will clarify.