Janggi

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Janggi, or Korean Chess, is similar to Xiangqi, with the following differences:

  1. There is no river.
  2. Pawns have a sideways move right off the bat.
  3. The General and Advisors, while still confined to the palace, can move along all lines thereof.
  4. Elephants move like a non-leaping Zebra in Fairy Chess (i.e. one point orthogonally followed by two at a forty-five degree angle to the orthogonal direction).
  5. Generals start in the center of the palace.
  6. Cannons must leap to move as well as capture.

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