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Xiangqi: Chinese Chess. Links and rules for Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
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