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Bn Em wrote on Sat, Nov 6, 2021 01:02 PM UTC:

I second the interest in a translation of the Korean analysis (or did you mean the Classical‐Chinese(?) source text? Interested either way). I'm a little skeptical of the capture‐only camel move, but my Chinese is far from good enough to offer any other plausible interpretation even if I had the text and from what you've given it does seem to be what it suggested.

The game itself certainly looks like an enlarged Xiàngqì/Janggi; much moreso than e.g. kō shōgi imo. It even retains river‐like movement restrictions (for the spearman and rear general)! Would no doubt be interesting to play.

I assume advisors appropriated by capturing a flank general remain restricted to their palaces? And does such a flank‐general capture take over whatever is currently in that 3×5 area, in which case astrologers and rear generals also remain restricted as usual? If so it's an interesting solution to the (arguable) problem of too many defense‐only pieces

Also an apparent error: your characters for spearman and rear general in the pieces section seem to be reversed wrt the diagram (either that or the spearman has to start with a long forward move after the rear and chief generals have both moved out of its way — seems less likely). Though given the meanings of the characters it's likely that the diagram, rather than the text, in in error. The character for the Guerilla also doesn't match the one in the diagram, but apparently that's just traditional–simplified differences.


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