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Janggi - 장기 - Korean Chess. The variant of chess played in Korea. (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I just realized that I don't know which are the horses and which are the elephants in the Korean chess set. In other forms of chess, the position on the board diagram indicates this, but because Korean chess allows the horses and elephants to be placed at the player's choice, just seeing the pieces laid out on the board doesn't necessarily tell which is which. I don't have any trouble with the one side, which looks like the characters from Chinese chess -- but the other side. So my question is this: Are the Korean characters on this page arranged in the standard Rook-knight-bishop-queen-king-queen-bishop-knight line-up? ...or not? Much thanks for the clarification!
Makruk (Thai chess). Rules and information. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Much thanks to Poompat for the details on the ending of the game! All the sources I'd found to this point were missing, ambiguous or otherwise incomplete. Now I've got to go do some studying!
Here's another question, for someone who knows what Makruk is like in Thailand: According to Murray's History of Chess, the pawn, called 'bia,' is traditionally a cowrie (or cowry) shell. Are cowrie shells still used today in Thailand? Or is it preferable to have the little disk-like objects which are manufactured like the rest of the set?
Burmese Traditional Chess. An article that discusses chess as it was played in Burma. (8x8, Cells: 64) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]I've been looking around for a traditional Burmese chess set, and haven't found anything yet. Anyone have an idea of where I might find such a thing? Much thanks...
Makruk (Thai chess). Rules and information. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Hi! One more question for Poompat or any native (or thoroughly accustomed) player of makruk: It there a first move rule? That is, does black or white (or red) move first...or is there some other conventional way of deciding who has the first move? I've printed up a booklet of the rules of makruk...and someone asked me this question...but I can't seem to find any answer, on this site, or on any of the makruk sites, or in any of my books. Is there a first move rule?
Tezhi Luzhanqi - Chinese army chess. Chinese strategic game.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]Free rule booklets for this game can be downloaded from http://ancientchess.com/page/free-downloads.htm The site usually carried playing sets as well.
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