Xiangqiboard, a GUI for chinese chess

Ralph Glass


Table of Contents

Introduction
Prerequisites
Usage
Acknowledgement
Where to get it from
Contact

Introduction

Xiangqiboard provides a resizable board to play xiangqi against the hoichess/hoixiangqi engine.

Prerequisites

Xiangqiboard.hs is tested on Ubuntu 7.10 GNU Linux and compiles with the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. You also need hoichess/hoixiangqi by Holger Ruckdeschel. Hoichess Version 0.8.0 tested on Ubuntu 7.10 GNU Linux. A precompiled Xiangqiboard deb package is also available for your convinience.

Usage

Use your mouse to enter the moves.

Xiangqi is also known as Chinese Chess. Read about it on chessvariants

Acknowledgement

Thanks to Holger Ruckdeschel for adapting HoiChess to Xiangqi, his HoiXiangqi motivated me further to do this GUI. Thanks to the cairo developers and everbody working on GTK and Gnome. The pieces are hand created with inkscape, a mighty fine free (GPL) software scalable vector graphics editor :-)

Where to get it from

Download the sources tarball or the deb package at http://xiangqiboard.blogspot.com

Xiangqiboard is free software and licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.

Contact

Ralph Glass, Erpelweg 2, 86356 Neusaess, ralph.glass@t-online.de