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Makruk (Thai chess). Rules and information. (8x8, Cells: 64) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Sam wrote on Fri, Jun 28, 2002 03:51 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I couldn't explain it better then myself.

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Jan 19, 2004 05:30 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I notice that the game's name contains the Knight's name Ma with a K added, followed by the Rook's name Rua with the a replaced by a K. The second half even sounds like Rook! Is this more than coincidence?

Charles Gilman wrote on Mon, Mar 22, 2004 10:52 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Thanks to Poompat for the etymological info. So the second syllable means 'attack'? Well that makes the coincidence an even bigger one, as the Rook is the most powerful piece in the Asian games! It sounds like this game may develop further. A variant with the Met moving as a Goldgeneral - Makruk with a touch of Shogi, as it were - might be interesting.

Ed wrote on Sat, Apr 24, 2004 11:58 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
I had not thought of the idea of a variant with a met having the move of
the gold from shogi, as Mr. Gilman suggests, but my son compiled a ZRF
for
makruk-gi.  The game was surprisingly more playable than chessgi.

As to wooden sets, I wonder if Poompat knows a way to contact the Thai
Department of Corrections who list a board and pieces on their website:
http://www.thaicorrect.moi.go.th/sst93.html.  I have tried writing to the
site coordinator (although in English) and had no success.

I have seen that there are books and websites in Thai on various aspects
of play -- I found some endgame exercises with diagrammatic solutions
very
easy to read and quite instructive.

I wish that there were more instructive literature available to English
readers.  Some of those endgames with a couple of mets look very complex.

David Paulowich wrote on Fri, Oct 15, 2004 08:23 PM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★
Jean-Louis Cazaux has a page on 'Ouk Chatrang, the Cambodian Chess and Makruk, the Thai Chess' on his web site. Cazaux has a personalid page here, giving the current address of his web site.

suthee wrote on Thu, Oct 28, 2004 02:05 AM UTC:Excellent ★★★★★

John Smith wrote on Fri, Nov 28, 2008 05:11 AM UTC:Good ★★★★
This game is similar to Senterej, Ethiopian Chess, in that you should not bare your opponent's King. In Senterej, however, there are no actual rules concerning bare King; it is merely etiquette.

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