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:
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| pieceimage | piecegb.gif |
| boardimage | chinese-art.gif |
| notationtag | off |
| width | 600 |
| height | 546 |
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 Coffee Chinese Chess. (9x10, Cells: 90) | ||||
Fergus Duniho  | None | We 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 View [*] | |
Flowerman  | None | Thanks for it! But if there are chinese chess, so why there are no japanese chess (Shogi)? I rather want to play Shogi on computer, than Xian-Qi, because Xian-Qi equipment is easy to make in real life, we drawn board for it and used chess pieces and draughts. And Shogi equipment is not so easy to make! | View [*] | |
| None | Not able to change the pieces by clicking on alternate sets below the board. Suggestions? | View [*] | ||
| 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 [*] | ||
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