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Coffee Chinese Chess

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 various graphics I have designed for Chinese Chess. Below the applet, you can select different piece sets. Some will automatically use different boards than the one shown below. This applet will let you play against a computer program. If you would like to play against other people by correspondence, using the same graphics available here, you can use Game Courier, which will let you play Chinese Chess and many more Chess variants online.

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:

ParameterValue
pieceimagepiecegb.gif
boardimagechinese-art.gif
notationtagoff
width600
height546

Written by Fergus Duniho
WWW Page Created: 28 September 2003. 

Credits

Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Pham Hong Nguyen.

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This item is a Java program, It belongs to categories: Two dimensional, Large board, Oriental, Xiangqi, or Xiangqi-based It is a 2 player game. It was last modified on: 2003-09-29 Author: Fergus Duniho. Inventor: Pham Hong Nguyen. Coffee Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90)
2011-05-13eric k UnverifiedGoodMuch appreciated in providing such good and convenient chess game for me. I play this chess every day. Thanks ! View [*]
2011-04-13Weng Lim UnverifiedExcellent
Under the HK rules, a rook may not perpetually chase a cannon.  Whereas,
this game does not allow a cannon to perpetually avoid a rook!  Any chance
of fixing this otherwise excellent program?

Weng
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2010-12-20M Winther Verified as M WintherNone
Consider playing Xiangqi on http://www.playxiangqi.com/ or http://chesscape.com/ 
It's free. You can also play slow Xiangqi games here:
http://play.chessvariants.org/pbm/presets/chinese_chess.html
/Mats
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2010-12-20Arthur UnverifiedNone
Good game and good opponent. I like it. It is not easy to get a free
Chinese Chess game with no login name and no password. I play here often a
few years ago but somehow I could not get to this web site for some time.
Good to be back.

I suggest the creator to ask the Chinese Government for a funding to
promote the Chinese culture.
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2010-02-13Fergus Duniho Verified as Fergus DunihoNoneWe take what we can get. I would love to have a strong Java applet for Shogi with customizable graphics, but no one has programmed one.Edit
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