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Cambodian Chess

. Mysterious 9x9 "Cambodian" Chess game that seems unknown in Cambodia.[All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Robert Shimmin wrote on Mon, Dec 2, 2002 02:41 PM UTC:

I can't imagine this game was ever played much, or if played much, ever
played well.

If the second player adopts a symmetrical defense, then the first player
is forced to sacrifice material, possibly a lot of material, in order to
break symmetry.  The only way to break symmetry is to capture one ship
(rook) with another down a file, or to check the enemy king.  But either
of these require opening a gap in the pawn structure, and the second
player can always come out ahead materially in the process of opening such
a gap.

Alexander E. Stevens wrote on Tue, May 11, 2004 01:10 AM UTC:Poor ★

The Zip file appears to contain no ZRF, just images.

Peter Aronson wrote on Tue, May 11, 2004 05:46 AM UTC:

There certainly <strong>is</strong> a ZRF in there, named Chess_Cambodian, and placed in the directory created. Perhaps there is a problem with the program you're using for unzipping?

Alexander E. Stevens wrote on Wed, May 12, 2004 06:39 PM UTC:

Maybe so... I'm using XP and it has shelled support for Zip files now. Everytime I open the zip, there appears to be no ZRF in any of the zipped directories.

Tony Quintanilla wrote on Thu, May 13, 2004 02:53 AM UTC:

I found the same thing. However, XP seems to have this problem only with archived ZRFs that are named something like, something_chess.zrf instead of something.zrf.

Antoine Fourrière wrote on Thu, May 13, 2004 03:42 AM UTC:

Using the evaluation version of WinZip 9.0 under XP, I get all the files, but only once I record cambodianchess.zip on my hard drive, not if I open it immediately.

Alexander E. Stevens wrote on Sat, May 15, 2004 07:17 PM UTC:

I used WinRAR and got it.
Apparently the XP shell support for zip files doesn't like underscores?

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Thu, Nov 6, 2008 04:22 PM UTC:

The game is very easy to fall into the stalemate. I suspect the variant is not real Cambodian Chess, because it lacks playable strategic and no Cambodia people plays or mentions it.

I think the vaiant was invented by one persion who both liked Chinese Chess and Thai Chess. He wanted to combine these chess, so invented this variant.

If the elephant jumpes like Ailfi(2,2 jumper) and also steps like the elephant of Thai Chess, the variant may be somewhat playable.

Yu Ren Dong wrote on Wed, Mar 18, 2009 02:13 AM UTC:

Real Khmer Chess 

Online

http://ouk.sourceforge.net/kchess.php


The first Khmer Chess tournament. 

http://english.sina.com/sports/1/2008/0427/156243.html


About Ka Ok (Kar Ouk)

http://www.khmerinstitute.org/culture/ok.html

I like this idea of Kar Ouk, so I implemented the variant(based on MAKRUK.zrf implemented by Malcolm Maynard).

http://pika.cs.nctu.edu.tw/lit/KarOuk.rar

Anonymous wrote on Thu, May 13, 2010 01:44 PM UTC:

What about simple rule, wich don't allow second player o mirror first move of first player?

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