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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.
@ H.G. (and others): speaking of a general 50 move rule, I now recall seeing a kind of it once mentioned online somewhere as being in use for Korean Chess (maybe just in tournaments for it??) - I'm surprised it's not always given as a standard rule for Korean Chess (such as on the CVP site Rules Page for that).
One time I played a game of it, for example, and could not figure out how a R plus King could possibly force checkmate vs. a lone Korean Chess King, with the Palace K movement rules that are used (and players being allowed to pass sometimes), but the rules given on CVP for that game do not seem to exclude someone with the extra rook (or even the defender) just playing on and on, making moves forever. Even if I'm wrong about a R+K not being a winning edge, a player could play on and on with a lesser material edge...
[edit: looking at a rules enforcing Korean Chess preset (done years ago by Fergus) in Edit Mode, there doesn't appear to be a claiming of a 50 move rule there, either.]
[edit2: Here's one place where the sort of 50 move rule for Korean chess is given - after 50 moves without mate, counting the piece values is then used to determine the result:]
https://www.pychess.org/variants/janggi