 Janggi board and starting setup | |
| Genres | |
|---|---|
| Players | 2 |
| Setup time | < 1 minute |
| Playing time | From 20 minutes to several hours |
| Chance | None |
| Skills | Strategy, tactics |
| Synonyms |
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| Janggi | |
| Hangul | 장기 |
|---|---|
| Hanja | 將棋 |
| Revised Romanization | janggi |
| McCune–Reischauer | changgi |
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.[citation needed]
In 2009, the first world janggi tournament was held in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China.[1]
- ^ "제1회 세계인장기대회 할빈서 성황리에" (in Korean). Archived from the original on 21 July 2011.