Monday, February 17, 2025

'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?

Tuesday, February 11, 2025

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.