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- KOREAN CHESS RESOURCES
- Documentation by Roleigh Martin
- 12-23-93
-
- Korean Chess can be played with a Chinese Chess Set -- same pieces and
- board -- but different rules. Actually quite fun! Very few Chinese
- people know this game -- if you find yourself loosing to Chinese friends
- in Chinese Chess, play them a game of Korean Chess - you might win!
-
- Actually, the real Korean Chess set uses 8-sided pieces not round pieces as
- in Chinese Chess. Also not all the pieces are the same diameter as they
- are in Chinese Chess. The red pieces are 100% identical but the black have
- four pieces that use brush/script style Chinese calligraphy and the pieces
- are difficult to translate -- I had to ask a Korean shopper in the Korean
- Grocery store that I found the set at to identify the black pieces. The
- board doesn't have a blank (no vertical lines) river across the middle of
- the board as in Chinese Chess -- that's because there is no promotion or
- barrier concept in Korean Chess as there is in Chinese Chess. Again, you
- can play Korean and/or Chinese Chess with either country's pieces/board.
- One thing nice, the Korean Grocery store had the pieces for only $4 and a
- nice wooden board for only $10.
-
- The below resource is still in print and has an entire chapter on Korean
- Chess -- it is the only known accurate and complete set of rules, with
- commentary and a sample game, on Korean Chess.
-
- I forget what the (if any) shipping and postage fee is, but you can only
- order by mail. Write Dept. 23, Dover Publications Inc., 31 East 2nd St.,
- Mineola NY 11501.
-
- TITLE: Korean Games: With Notes on the Corresponding Games of China &
- Japan
- AUTHOR: Culin, Stewart
- SERIES: Puzzles Ser.
- PUBLISHER: Dover PUBLICATION DATE: 02/1991 (910201)
- EDITION: Repr. of 1895 ed. NO. OF PAGES: 256p.
- LCCN: N/A
- BINDING: pap. - $9.95
- ISBN: 0-486-26593-5
- VOLUME(S): N/A
- ORDER NO.: N/A
- IMPRINT: N/A
- STATUS IN FILE: New (91-04)
- NOTE(S): Illustrated
- SUBFILE: PB (Paperbound Books in Print)
-