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CHINESE CHESS RESOURCES
Documentation by Roleigh Martin
1-9-94
The following are two currently-in-print and good books on Chinese Chess.
You can also order an actual board game of Chinese Chess from Ishi Press
International (76 Bonaventura Drive, San Jose CA 95134, 408-944-9900 (in
England: 20 Bruges Place, Baynes Street, London NW1 OTE, (0)71-284-4898.
Ishi Press accepts phone orders with credit cards. The book on Chinese
Chess by C. E. Tuttle of Rutland, Vermont, was bought at a book store.
You can also buy a Chinese Chess set from some (only a minority I've found)
of Chinese and/or Vietnamese-Chinese grocery stores. Call around (use the
yellow pages). I found a place that sold the sets for $4.50 but the board
was a paper board (but you could wall-paper glue and shellac it onto a
piece of fiber-board to make a nice solid game board). The Ishi Press
Chinese Chess set costs about $30-some dollars.
By the way, Ishi Press International has a book (Shogi for Beginners), a
IBM PC software program (Shogi Master) that runs great on a HP 100 and
MCGA, CGA, EGA, and VGA PC's, and an actual board game (wooden and magnetic)
of Shogi -- which is Japanese Chess -- but that is a whole different story
and this ZIP file is focused on Chinese Chess. But for chess lovers, I'd
thought I'd throw this in. Oh yes, C. E. Tuttle has a book on Shogi too,
called Shogi: Japan's Game of Strategy by Trevor Leggett which includes a
fully functional Shogi Chess game (heavy cardboard pieces, paper board).
(For those who have a HP 100 and end up getting Shogi, it can't run under
the HP 100 System Manager -- you must terminate from that program to run
Shogi -- also, the EGA*.* and VGA*.* files aren't needed to run Shogi on
the HP 100.)
P.S. The Chinese Chess set by Ishi Press includes rules on Korean Chess,
but their rules are incomplete -- see the accompanying file, KOREAN.SRC,
for getting the full set of rules on Korean Chess.
TITLE: Chinese Chess for Beginners
AUTHOR: Sloan, Sam
PUBLISHER: Ishi Pr Intl PUBLICATION DATE: 07/1989 (890701)
EDITION: Orig. Ed. NO. OF PAGES: 200p.
LCCN: 89-084155
BINDING: pap. - $10.95
ISBN: 0-923891-11-0
VOLUME(S): N/A
ORDER NO.: S4
IMPRINT: N/A
STATUS IN FILE: New (89-04)
NOTE(S): Illustrated
SUBFILE: PB (Paperbound Books in Print)
TITLE: Chinese Chess
AUTHOR: Lau, H. T.
PUBLISHER: C E Tuttle PUBLICATION DATE: 03/1991 (910301)
NO. OF PAGES: 248p.
LCCN: 84-052394
BINDING: pap. - $9.95
ISBN: 0-8048-1675-1
VOLUME(S): N/A
ORDER NO.: N/A
IMPRINT: N/A
STATUS IN FILE: New (91-01)
NOTE(S): Illustrated
SUBFILE: PB (Paperbound Books in Print)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS: CHINESE CHESS (00086320)
PAPERBOUND BOOK SUBJECT HEADINGS: HOBBIES AND GAMES-GAMES, MAGIC AND
PUZZLES (00001478)