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Janggi - 장기 - Korean Chess. The variant of chess played in Korea. (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Jose Carrillo wrote on Fri, Jun 4, 2004 10:57 PM UTC:
Fergus,

What I meant to say was, use the Chinese characters as an option for the
Piece Set that the players are allowed to use.

For example, I don't have a Korean Chess set, but use a Chinese Chess set
when I play Korean Chess over the board with my friends. We ignore that the
river is there and voila!

If I had the Piece Set choice, I definitely use the Chinese Chess set, as
it was hard enough for me to learn the Chinese Characters in the first
place (I'm Spanish). My oponents could choose to display the Korean
characters, and I would use the Chinese, but we could still play each
other and enjoy a game right away.

Of course, if there is no choice, I would learn the Korean characters as
well.

You could also give as another choice the westernized characters in your
Korean Chess rules webpage, for those that do not know Korean or Chinese
characters, and want to try out Korean Chess. This way I'm sure you would
get a lot more westerner players to enjoy the game.

It was just a suggestion.

Jose