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Jeyoon Jung wrote on Sat, Nov 6, 2021 05:27 AM UTC in reply to dead dead from Mon Nov 1 03:22 AM:

The piece that moves like the FIDE Mad Queen is restricted to the 3 rows which contain Palaces.

I'd assume you mean the astrologer, but there is nothing that implies that it is a ranging piece. Plus, there is no diagonal ranging piece to be found; I believe it is safe to see it as a Wazir.

I would assume the vice-royal “Generals” on each flank were originally restricted to the Wazir move, like the Xiang-Qi King, but the Koreans added the diagonal palace moves.

I think that the Xiangqi version of the Palace had orthogonal lines for the King and diagonal lines to show the movement of the counsellor, but when it became Janggi they just mixed it up.

There is a piece that moves like the Chu Shogi Lion, but restricted to diagonal movement. I assume that the Chinese borrowed the Lion from the Japanese, and added it into “Guang-Xiang-Qi”, but the Koreans found it too powerful, and weakened its move to diagonal directions only.

That, I believe is a misinterpretation. I think you read about this in the Chaturanga Family, as it says that the astrologer is a limited queen and the ambush is a lion ferz. It seems that the author was wrong with the interpretation. The original says that the ambush moves as 日半, not 半日. The cavalry is described as 半日, which is correctly half a 日. However, 日半 should be interpreted as a 日 plus half a 日, making a camel's move. The lion capture will probably come from the phrase "it ambushes again after capture". It seems that this phrase is there to clarify as the sentence before uses the character 發, which can be interpreted as both 'start' and 'move'.


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