Javier wrote on Fri, Dec 6, 2002 09:40 PM UTC:Good ★★★★
Good sites about XiangQi in English are hard to find. Here's a collection
of essential web-sites and programs for XiangQi.
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RULES/INTRODUCTION
http://www.chessvariants.com/xiangqi.html
Overall summary
http://www.chessvariants.com/chinfaq.html
rec.games.chinese-chess FAQ
http://www.crockford.com/chess/xiangqi.html
Introduction for chess players
http://www.ishipress.com/cc-rules.htm
Sam Sloan's introduction
http://www.yutopian.com/go/ccLes/ccLes.html
Yutopian's introduction
http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/afi/ch_index.htm
Chinese & Korean chess
http://www.chesshub.com/cchess/tutorial/
Chesshub.com tutorial
http://www.chesshub.com/cchess/rules/
Chesshub.com Asian rules
http://www.acs.sch.edu.sg/acs_indep/eca/clubs/chinese_chess/guide.html
Playing Guide
ftp://weber.ucsd.edu/pub/dmckiern/XiangQi.pdf
Essentials of Chinese & Korean Chess
http://www.yutopian.com/chinesechess/chrules.pdf
Basics of Chinese Chess
http://www.cchess.com/rules/rules.htm
Chinese Chess Net
http://home1.gte.net/res1bup4/chess_intro.htm
Introduction by Peter Donnelly
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TUTORIAL AND STRATEGY
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/xianglearn.html
MSO World - 6 pages
http://library.thinkquest.org/12255/universal.htm
with Java - highly recommended!
http://www.geocities.com/yccheok/tutorial/menu.html
with Java - online only
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SOFTWARE COLLECTIONS
http://www.nchess.com/
http://www.geocities.com/yccheok/software.html
http://tysung.cjb.net/xq/software/software.htm
PLAYING SOFTWARE
http://www.zillionsofgames.com/games/chinesechess-fd.html
http://www.zillionsofgames.com/games/chinesechesswesternstyle.html
Zillions of Games
http://www.geocities.com/xqlearner/
http://xqlearner.ibid.com.cn (mirror site)
Chinese Chess Learner
Shareware playing/database - value: excellent
http://www.nchess.com/cccmain.htm
Coffee Chinese Chess Ver 0.4 java applet
simple - value: good)
http://www.cc-xiexie.com
http://www.geocities.com/yccheok/software/xiexie.zip
XieXie
Strong playing program - value: excellent
http://www.geocities.com/yccheok/software/miloches.zip
Milo's Chinese Chess
2D and 3D - value: good
http://cosoft.org.cn/project/showfiles.php?group_id=100
Mantis Chess Ver. 1.04
Tiny GNU program - value: average
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EDITOR/DATABASE SOFTWARE
http://tysung.hypermart.net/cchview/m1.htm
CChView Ver 3.5.0
Get disk 1 from xiangqi.rm-f.net/disk1.zip - value: good
http://tysung.cjb.net/xq/software/cchview/help/main.htm
CChView 4.3.5 - value: excellent
http://www.nchess.com/xb.html
XB Database Browser ver 1.1
Browsing only - value: good
http://www.nchess.com/eon.htm
Endgame database viewer Of xiaNqi
For evaluating end-games - value: average
http://www.nchess.com/ccwsetup.zip
Chinese Chess World Ver 0.1
Trainer program with computer play - value: average
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GAMES
http://www.nchess.com/download.html
Masters games
http://tysung.cjb.net/xq/index.html
Xiangqi Master Database - huge collection
http://tysung.cjb.net/xq/software/cchview/help/main.htm
Xiangqi Master Database - for CChView 4.3.5
http://xiangqi.rm-f.net/index.html
Xiangqi Opening Studies
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SERVERS REQUIRING GENERIC CLIENT (ICCS = Internet Chinese Chess Servers)
http://xiangqi.com/
World Xiangqi League - site being revised
telnet chess.homeylife.net 5555 (active!)
Note: register by logging on with your chosen user handle,
and when logged on type: 'register youremailaddress'
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GENERIC ICCS client
http://icompile.hypermart.net/xiangqi/ccctwin.htm
CCCT Ver. 1.85 for ICCS - recommended!
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Cave/7230/coolclient01.zip
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Cave/7230/coolclient02.zip
Cool Client Ver 1.1 for ICCS disk 1 & 2
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SERVERS REQUIRING SPECIFIC CLIENT
http://www.chesssky.net/eindex.htm
Movesky XiangQi
http://www.chesssky.net/edownload.htm
MoveSky XiangQi client
Note: www.movesky.net is their old URL
http://www.cchess.com/english-index.html
CChess.com Chinese Chess Net
http://www.cchess.com/download/englishdownload.html
CChess.com client Ver. 4.5.8
Note: some parts of inteface are in Chinese, seems deserted
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JAVA SERVERS
http://www.clubxiangqi.com/
Club XiangQi - most active/recommended
http://www.chesshub.com
Chess Hub - active - apparently $12 a year
http://library.thinkquest.org/12255/universal.htm
seems deserted?
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PLAY BY EMAIL SERVERS
http://www.itsyourturn.com
slow play over several days
http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/
Play By Email Server
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JAVA APPLETS FOR PLAYING AGAINST COMPUTER
http://24.101.164.160/xq/computer/computer.htm
Xiangqi Database
http://private.addcom.de/dxb/
European Xiangqi Federation
http://www.nchess.com/cccmain.htm
Coffee Chinese Chess
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LINKS AND RESOURCES
http://weber.ucsd.edu/~dmckiern/xiang_qi.htm
http://tysung.cjb.net/xq/index.html (Xiangqi Database - Peter Sung)
http://www.geocities.com/yccheok/index.html
http://www.nchess.com
http://www.yutopian.com/chinesechess/
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XIANGQI FEDERATIONS
http://wxf.hypermart.net/eg/index.html
World XiangQi Federation
http://private.addcom.de/dxb/
European XiangQi Federation
http://www.asianxiangqi.org/
Asian XiangQi Federation
http://tysung.cjb.net/xq/club/txa/txa.htm
Toronto XiangQi Federation
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DISCUSSIONS
rec.games.chinese-chess
newsgroup
http://www.nchess.com/forum
Computer XiangQi Forum
http://private.addcom.de/dxb/dxbforum.html
European XiangQi forum
http://24.102.146.141/xq/mlist.htm
mailing list from WXF - World Xiangqi Federation - seems inactive
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ARTICLES AND NEWS
http://www.chez.com/cazaux/champions-xiangqi.htm
Xiangqi Champions
http://www.chesshub.com/faq/cchess/?L=players
World's best players
http://private.addcom.de/dxb/dxbhof.html
Europe's best players
http://www.chesshub.com/faq/cchess/?L=complex
Space/State in Chess vs Chinese Chess
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/xiang_lu_world.html
World Champ vs World game 1
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/2xiang_lu_world.html
World Champ vs World game 2
http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/orient/3Lu_world.html
World Champ vs World game 3
http://www.yutopian.com/chinesechess/history.html
history of XiangQi
http://www.asianxiangqi.org/English/10axmit/EngAlbum1.htm
Photographs
http://www.sport.gov.mo/2001/en/xiangqi/index.phtml
2001 World XiangQi Championships
http://www.cchess.com/others/others.html
Chinese Chess and Culture