                            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)
