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| | Chess in Cambodia |
 | | Makruk and other freeware strategy games for downloading. | | | It was strange and touching to see that in those streets where chess was played so passionately, on the one hand no one had heard of Kasparov or the Sicilian, while on the other hand their chess-machismo was exactly that of the analysis rooms and chess cafes here. | | | Maybe what happened to me in that street game was that I was swindled by something like a stalemating combination, my opponent sacrificing his remaining men to reach a position where I could not mate him in the prescribed number of moves. |
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http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/makruk.htm
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| | Chess - Open Encyclopedia |
| | Chess may be played individually or in teams, either with team players participating in the thinking over one game (consultation games) or playing on other boards where consultation is prohibited (team chess). | | | national games, like Shogi (Japan), Xiangqi (China), Janggi (Korea) and Makruk (Thailand). | | | Grand Chess) or other rule changes are made such as the ability to reinstated captured pieces (e.g. |
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http://open-encyclopedia.com/Chess
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