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JANGGI, THE KOREAN CHESS
Janggi is one of a family of strategic board games of which Western chess, Japanese Shogi, and the very similar Chinese Xiangqi are also members. Janggi is native to Korea and is therefore sometimes called Korean chess. Other romanizations of the game are changgi, jangki, and tjyangkeui. It is a game that is played on a board that is 9 lines wide by 10 lines long.Janggi is sometimes fast-paced due to the jumping cannons and the long range elephants, but professional games most often last for over 100 moves and is thus most often slower than western chess. Also, while in Western chess battle is concentrated in the middle few rows for the bulk of the game, in janggi the battle seems to be fought simultaneously all over the board.
Janggi is closely related to Xiangqi ("Chinese chess", which it may be a direct descendent of), and more distantly related to Shogi and chess. Like all of these games, it derives from the 6th century Indian game of chaturanga, or a close relative thereof.
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