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Rules of Gungi
If youre anywhere near up to speed in Hunter x Hunter, theres a decent
chance youve heard of gungi. During a very intense portion of the
narrative, the game becomes a pivotal piece on the storyboard; however,
all we really learn about gungi is that its a chess-variant in which you
can stack pieces on one another. The rules are left unexplored by
Togashi, and fans in the English-speaking HxH community are left alone
in a dark continent. Lucky for us, the fans in Japan are on top of things. Texas Sharpshooter Fealty (23)

Turns out that fans have already sorted out and laid down functional Ask or Request Submit a post
rules for gungi across a series of forum threads! WHOA! A Japanese
blogger going by Nishitsuji Sannkurou extensively covered instructions
for gungi in this post; I translated it for personal reference and will now Classpect Analysis Gungi
confer the rules to you.
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The battle takes places on a 9x9 tile board. This is the same board as My blog All of Tumblr
shogi, gungis chief inspiration. The opposing forces are Black and
White. Black moves first, and the two sides take turns moving pieces.
Pieces that are on the board are called active pieces, while captured
pieces are taken from the board and added to your hand.
Horizontal rows will be referred to as rank, while vertical columns will be RSS Feed Random
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The first three ranks on your side of the board are considered your
territory. Unlike chess, there is no mandated starting positions for pieces 20122017 Powered by Tumblr
in gungi. After deciding Black and White, each game starts off with a
period called the Initial Arrangement. During this time, the players
take turns placing their pieces wherever they please within their own
territory. Every single piece must be placed during the Initial
Arrangement.
It should be noted here that each piece in gungi has two sides, Front
and Back. Only Front pieces can be played in the Initial Arrangement.
The nature of game pieces will be explored further in another castle.
It should also be noted here that there must be a Pawn in every file by
the end of this phase.

Pieces can be stacked on top of each other in gungi; any position on the
board with such an arrangement is called a tower. A tower can have up
to three layers, called tiers. That way, we can have peppy-happy
alliterative shorthand like 2 Tier Tower and 3 Tier Tower when
referring to configurations on the board. While it is safest to build on your
own pieces, it is also possible to land on your opponents pieces and
share a tower with your opponent.
Within a tower, two pieces of the same type and team cannot coexist. It
is not against the rules to occupy the tower of an enemy that contains a
piece of the same type. Here are some examples:
Pawn-Pawn-Gold is prohibited, you animal
Pawn-Pawn-Pawn is prohibited, you monster
Pawn-Bronze-Gold is allowed, you blight upon existence
(Your) Pawn (Your) Gold (Enemy) Gold is allowed, Illumi
Only pieces on the top-most tier of a tower are able to move. Any
piece(s) below are rendered immobile until the piece(s) above them have
been removed.

In gungi, there are two kinds of attacks: mobile and immobile.


In a mobile strike, you attack an enemy piece within your pieces
range, occupy its position, and add the enemy piece to your hand. When
attacking another tower with a mobile strike, you can only attack the
top-most tier, no matter how high your own tower may be. This means
that when you attack a tower, you replace the top-most tier. This is turn
exposes the attacker to the threat of an immobile strike.
An immobile strike lets you attack the piece above or below your piece
in a tower and add it to your hand. If the piece was on top, you simply
capture it. If the piece was below, the pieces above it descend to a lower
tier. You cannot attack a piece that is two tiers above or below your
piece.

When you capture a Front piece, the accompanying Back piece is added
to your hand, and vice-versa. The pieces in your hand can be played
anew as a member your team. Doing this is called a drop. Like any other
move or attack, a drop takes up one turn.
You can drop a piece from your hand onto any empty space on the
board. You cannot capture a piece with a drop, and aside from a few
exceptions, you cannot drop directly on top of another piece, whether it
be yours or the opponents piece. Again with some exceptions,
drops can be used to achieve checkmate.

The ultimate goal of gungi is to capture the Commander. This piece


shares the functionality of the King in chess, but was likely renamed for
political reasons within the HxH universe.
If a Commander is in range of a mobile or immobile strike from the
enemy such that it could be captured on the next turn, it is said to be in
check. A Commander cannot move into check. To avoid defeat, a
Commander in check must either run away, block the attack of the
piece(s) that threaten it, or eliminate the piece(s) that threaten it. Failure
to do any of these results in checkmate. Whoever puts their opponent in
checkmate wins.

There are a total of 46 pieces on the board at the start of the game, 23
for each side. As mentioned before, each of these pieces has a Front
and Back side with different abilities. The pairings and amount of each
pair per team are as follows:
Front Back (amount)
Commander N/A (1)
Captain Pistol (2)
Samurai Pike (2)
Spy Clandestinite(3)
Catapult Lance (1)
Fortress Lance (1)
Hidden DragonDragon King(1)
ProdigyPhoenix(1)
Bow Arrow (2)
Pawn - Bronze (7)
Pawn - Silver (1)
Pawn - Gold (1)
We have assembled quite a peanut gallery. Each piece has a Chinese
character that labels them and a range of movement that can be altered
by moving to a different tier in their own tower. Any piece that is on top
of an enemy piece has the same set of moves as Gold, no matter what.
Some also have more nuanced special abilities. Well start to cover those
here.

-Commander

Cannot move to a space where it would be put into check


When in check, cannot run to a space occupied by your own pieces
A tower cannot be built on top of the Commander
Cannot receive the Mobile Range Expansion Effect
Cannot be added to hand
-CAPTAIN
Has the 1-3 Tier Exchange Effect
-SAMURAI

Has the Substitution Effect


-SPY

Able to jump over other pieces


Has the Forced Recovery Effect
Has the ability Land-Link
-CATAPULT

Completely immobile! Cant do mobile strikes at all!! Wow!!!


Imparts the mighty Mobile Range Expansion Effect
Has the ability Land-Link
Cannot be added to your hand
-FORTRESS

Completely immobile! Cant do mobile strikes at all!! Wow!!!


Actually it cant do immobile strikes either!!!! Incredible!!!!!
Imparts the mighty Mobile Range Expansion Effect
Has the ability Land-Link
Cannot be added to your hand
-HIDDEN DRAGON
First tier moves the same as a Rook
Doesnt experience the Mobile Range Expansion Effect
-PRODIGY

First tier moves the same as a Bishop


Doesnt experience the Mobile Range Expansion Effect
-BOW

Able to jump over other pieces


-PAWN

Double-Pawn Drop is foul play


Pawn Drop Checkmate is foul play
Has the Forced Recovery Effect
Following the Initial Arrangement, there must be a Pawn in every file

-PISTOL

No special abilities
-PIKE
No special abilities
-CLANDESTINITE

Able to jump over other pieces


Has the ability Land-Link
-LANCE

Has the Forced Rearrangement Effect


Has the Force Recovery Effect
-DRAGON KING

Doesnt experience the Mobile Range Expansion Effect


-PHOENIX

Doesnt experience the Mobile Range Expansion Effect


-ARROW
No special abilities
-BRONZE

Double Bronze is foul play


Getting checkmate with a Bronze is foul play
Has the Betrayal Effect
-SILVER

No special abilities
-GOLD

No special abilities
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EARTH-LINK!!
Fundamentally, you cant drop on top of active pieces; pieces with
the Earth-Link trait are an exception. If no other pieces are on top of
them, you can drop pieces directly onto the Catapult, Fortress, Spy, and
Clandestinite.
Only Back pieces can be dropped onto the Spy, and only Front pieces
can be dropped onto the Clandestinite.
As a reminder, the Commander, Catapult, and Fortress can never
be dropped, as they can never be added to your hand.
'MOBILE RANGE EXPANSION EFFECT!!
The two immobile pieces Catapult and Fortress have this ability.
The Mobile Range Expansion Effect allows every piece within its
range to adopt the mobile range of the tier directly above it. Which is
to say, 1 Tier Towers would behave like 2 Tier Towers and 2 Tier
Towers would behave like 3 Tier Towers . Whats more, enemy pieces
cannot jump over pieces within range of the effect.
Your Mobile Range Expansion Effect does not alter the nature of
enemy pieces.
The Fortress affects the pieces on top of it and all the pieces in front of it,
influencing pieces outside of your territory. Heres an illustration:
The Catapult only affects the pieces on top of itself and pieces within you
territory. Its range is a bit tricky to describe, so heres an illustration,
with red used to indicate the region beyond your territory:

'1-3 TIER EXCHANGE EFFECT!!


The 1-3 Tier Exchange Effect allows a Tier 1 Captain to change
places with any allied piece on Tier 3, besides the Commander.
Likewise, a Tier 3 Commander can change places with any allied piece
on Tier 1, besides the Fortress and Catapult. Treat both of these actions
as 1 move.
This effect cannot be used in the same tower consecutively.
'SUBSTITUTION EFFECT!!
The effect of having a Samurai. If a Commander to the left,right,front,or
back of a Samurai is in check, the Samurai can trade places with
it. Samurai that are in towers do not have this ability effect. Treat the
position swap as 1 move.
'BETRAYAL EFFECT
The effect of having a Bronze. If Bronze captures the top-most piece of
a tower, all the enemy pieces beneath Bronze betray and align
with Bronze's team.
If a piece below was an enemy Front, it becomes an allied Back. If it
was a Back, it becomes a Front. Turning the pieces over does not count
as a turn. As soon as youve finished turning the pieces over, it becomes
your opponents turn.
'FORCED RECOVERY EFFECT!!
The Forced Recovery Effect applies to Pawns, Spies, and Lances. If
any of these pieces move to a position where it will be unable to move
next turn (i.e. the opposite end of the board), you can invoke the Forced
Recovery Effect before the opponents turn. This returns the piece to
your hand. Doing so does not count as a turn.
If you attempt to invoke the Forced Recovery Effect right after
capturing a piece, the piece will go to the opponent's hand. Otherwise,
the recovered piece goes to your hand.
'FORCED REARRANGEMENT EFFECT!!
In the event that you capture an enemy Lance, your newly acquired
Fortress or Catapult is not added to your hand; it must be placed within
your territory immediately.
This does not count as a turn. Your opponent will move after you have
finished.

Committing foul play amounts to an immediate loss. Attempting to


change your move after youve let go of a piece is the simplest example
of foul play.
'REPETITION
If the same position occurs on the board 4 times in a row, both players
have committed foul play. The match ends in a draw.
'DOUBLE BRONZE
You are not allowed to have 2 or more Bronze pieces in the same file, no
matter what. It is foul play whether you dropped the second Bronze or
moved an active Bronze into the file.
If you notice that your opponent committed Double Bronze after you
have already resigned, point it out. The foul play falls onto your
opponent and smites them. You win.
'DOUBLE PAWN DROP
You are not allowed to drop a Pawn into a file occupied by
another Pawn. Because this only occurs with drops, you must point out
your opponent's foul play before you make your move. Failure to point
out a Double Pawn Drop immediately allows the game to continue
normally..
If you are moving active Pawns, it doesnt matter how many wind up in
the same file. Howeever, dont forget that there must be a Pawn in
every file by the end of the Initial Arrangement.
'BRONZE CHECKMATE
It is foul play to get checkmate with a Bronze piece. While they can
assist in trapping the Commander, they are not allowed to deal the the
final blow.
This applies to both drops and active pieces.
'PAWN DROP CHECKMATE
It is foul play to drop a Pawn in order to achieve checkmate. Using
an active Pawn is perfectly fine.

That about settles it! I hope you have fun trying out the game. If theres
any interest, I may do another post talking about match notation, but for
now Ill leave you with this important detail:
[7/15/2014 edit]: Capturing a piece is the only way to upgrade them, so
dont worry about confusing them with your own pieces! It may be a
good idea to give the front and back of any given piece a different color
to help with distinction. Alternatively, you could leave all pieces the same
color and simply remember that upgraded pieces of your own color are
the enemy. Take whichever choice seems best, and stick with it!
Later.

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