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Xiangqi: Chinese Chess. Links and rules for Xiangqi (Chinese Chess). (9x10, Cells: 90) (Recognized!)[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]
Seongmo Yoon wrote on Tue, Feb 3, 2004 01:19 AM EST:Excellent ★★★★★
Thanks, John!

This is from another source 
I can use this and your reference to know of Chinese chess notation.

>>From what I remember Lau just used a straightforward translation of 
>>the Chinese move notation which has been used for a long time. If you
>>have in Chinese language books you can verify this.
> 
> 
> I don't have Chinese books (as I unfortunately don't read Chinese);
but
> Lau used a pure algebraic notation.  The standard notation uses a 
> system with the symbols +, -, = to denote moves forward, back, or side-
> ward.  Lau's notation is actually easier to follow but no one else uses
it,
> so the student has to discard it and learn the standard notation later.

He simply uses english characters to represent the same thing.  From 
what I could tell his notation is easily translatable into [WA]XF by 
replacing f,b,t with +,-,=.  I may have the characters wrong, but in 
general he uses the Chinese notation with english characters just as 
[WA]XF uses chinese notation with mathematical symbols.

You should learn the characters needed to read chinese notation.  Its 
really only a few symbols more than the pieces.  You have front, back, 
side, and the numbers 1-9.