Written by Pham Hong Nguyen, Coffee Chinese Chess is a customizable freeware Java applet for playing Chinese Chess. It is also good for displaying games and practicing with an openingbook. At his own website for this applet, he gives permission for others to include it on their own websites. Since the graphics can be customized, I have customized it for use with the graphics I have previously designed for Chinese Chess.
To use a different piece set, click on one of the piece sets shown below. Note that changing the piece set will reset the game. So don't try this in the middle of a game.
You may customize this applet as much as you want by entering parameters in the URL Query String. All the Coffee Chinese Chess parameters are described on Pham Hong Nguyen's own website.
Note that this page changes some of the defaults of Coffee Chinese Chess. That is, when some parameters are not defined in the URL Query String, values of my own choice are used instead of the default values. For the sake of reference, here are the values that are different than the usual defaults:
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| pieceimage | piecegb.gif |
| boardimage | chinese-art.gif |
| notationtag | off |
| width | 600 |
| height | 546 |
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| Date | Name | Rating | Comment | Edit |
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Fergus Duniho ![]() | None | I have added a link to our own page on Chinese Chess. | Edit View [*] | |
| Excellent | Add a link to wikipedia chinese chess. good instructions there. I love the ability to switch the graphics on the pieces as it's good for learning. I like the ability to back up and change my moves. this is also good for learning. I also like that I am not allowed to move some pieces when I am in Check, without first protecting myself from the check issues. | View [*] | ||
| Average | Maybe you should add a guide, so that newbies can learn from the opponent. I can't seem to figure out why I lost. | View [*] | ||
| Average | The difficulty level is too high for someone like me. I can beat everyone in my family in chess but I can't even win the lowest level here. | View [*] | ||
| Poor | [Emphatic comment deleted by editor.] | View [*] | ||
| Number of ratings: 7, Average rating: Average, Number of comments: 9 | ||||
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