'Cheeky Dragons' set

Over the years, I've bought several chess sets from a guy calling himself 'Ogg the Clever' (see here, here, here and also here for a non-chess set). When he added a 'cheeky dragons' set to his line-up, I really wanted them!

And not just 'wanting' ..... I thought those would be perfect for a xiangqi set, and 'Ogg' was very willing to amend the numbers of the various pieces so they would make a full xiangqi set.

The set didn't come with a board, and I felt the black wooden board I've used before would be the perfect match.

Judge for yourself!

Don't you love them?

Modern wooden set

Saw this modern wooden xiangqi set, for not very much, and I really liked it, so ...

Someone must have put some real thought into making a modern wooden board attractive!

The pieces are simple wooden discs, with the usual Chinese writing on them.

Guess I said it already, but I really like the set!

The board actually comes with two sets of pieces: the pieces I showed in the pictures above, and a second set with pictograms rather than Chinese characters.

Dragon cloth set

I've got a few Janggi (Korean chess) sets in the collection: one commercial set for which I made a perspex board, one travel set, and a self-made set for a large Janggi variant: Gwangsanghui. Janggi sets available commercially are few and far between, so when I saw a plastic red and blue set for very little, I got it.

The set didn't come with any board, so I had to make that myself, obviously. After rejecting several ideas, I decided on creating a board from cloth, and adding the 'points' on which the game is played by using plastic gaming chips. Found a nice piece of cloth, with dragons, on the internet.

It took little time to measure out and glue the gaming chips on to the cloth, red chips for most of the points, and green for the 'palaces' (Janggi doesn't have rivers).

Time to put the pieces on the board!

I decided to set up the pieces for Gidoncha Janggi, a variant played in North Korea. In this variant, the rook and elephants/ministers have swapped places.