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I have come to learn the werstern version of chess since i was 6 years old.
From that time on, i have allways felt a passion for the game. Knowing that
there is more than one version of this game, it inspired me to think widely
and come up with other forms and variants of this brilliant game. One can
experiment with the numbers of squares, the forms of squares (how about a
great triagle, with three parties?), the number of pieces, the movements of
those pieces, and even swapping movement capabilities (how about giving the
Bishop the capability to jump like a knight, every other turn - after each
time you have made a move with that piece, its movement-ability changes
from knight to Bishop, from Bishop to Knight and so on...)I am glad to see
there are people who have taken the time and the effort to do research as
to where the game of chess has its origins. It is now commonly believed
that not chines chess, but chaturanga is the oldest known form of chess.
Its an Indian game. I will compare it with chinese chess, and hope many
others will share the same passion.

Good try but not informative enough.
A person that know NUTS about chinese
won't know what you are implying.

Horse/ Knight in chinese is 'ma' NOT 'mao'.

Cheers!

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