Ed wrote on Sat, Apr 24, 2004 11:58 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I had not thought of the idea of a variant with a met having the move of
the gold from shogi, as Mr. Gilman suggests, but my son compiled a ZRF
for
makruk-gi. The game was surprisingly more playable than chessgi.
As to wooden sets, I wonder if Poompat knows a way to contact the Thai
Department of Corrections who list a board and pieces on their website:
http://www.thaicorrect.moi.go.th/sst93.html. I have tried writing to the
site coordinator (although in English) and had no success.
I have seen that there are books and websites in Thai on various aspects
of play -- I found some endgame exercises with diagrammatic solutions
very
easy to read and quite instructive.
I wish that there were more instructive literature available to English
readers. Some of those endgames with a couple of mets look very complex.