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Another one: http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSgrandjanggi
In Ecumenical Eurasian Ninjachess I termed the compound of (Chinese) Cannon and (leaping) Knight a Marshhopper, but I can see that if a generic name is to cover different kinds of Knight (as well as Cannon) component that won't do, and no doubt you'd prefer a real word to something derived. Well as you'd have to be a really good shot to fire any kind of gun from a moving horse, how about Marksman? That would still have echoes of the start of Marshal. Now if I could devise real-word names for the Cardi-, Canva-, and Calip-hoppers I could submit an update to EEN - although as my update to Honeycomb Chess has yet to be posted goodness knows when the EEN update would appear!
Is merely using a piece which jumps like a Korean Cannon enough to qualify? Then my own Bifocal Chess has a piece which becomes (by choice) a Korean Cannon or a Korean Vao after each jump. I am also considering this 12x8 setup: clrnbqkbnrlc .pppppppppp. ............ ............ ............ ............ .PPPPPPPPPP. CLRNBQKBNRLC wherein C are the same Korean Cannons/Vaos (starting as Cannons, and allowed to capture or jump a Cannon/Vao), L are so-called Leapers whose first diagonal or orthogonal move turns them as a pair for the duration of the game into Cazaux Elephants (AF) or War Machines (DW) (unless one is captured before , turning the surviving Leaper into a Zebra or Camel), and Pawn promotion is allowed only as a Knight, an Elephant, a War Machine, a Camel or a Zebra (one of each per player).
Are there other Korean chess variants (but not subvariants of certain Chinese chess variants) besides this one, my 'Changi with diagonal pieces' - http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSchangiwithdiag , Jose Carrillo's 'Korean Random Chess' - http://www.chessvariants.org/index/msdisplay.php?itemid=MSkoreanrandomch and historical game, mentoided here - http://www.chessvariants.org/books.dir/kisljuk.html (i would like to know it's rules)?
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