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BOARD GAMES

http://www.boardgamesstudies.org/
The pages of Board Games in Academia, an association of historians publishing the very high quality "Board Games Studies".

http://www.abstractgamesmagazine.com/
The site of Abstract Games Magazine, the excellent magazine from Kerry Handscomb. I published a paper on Liubo in Issue 15. Currently turned off, but we hope they will come back soon!

http://www.zillions-of-games.com/
Zillions of Games -- an exciting game package that uses an absolutely unique "universal gaming engine" technology, allowing you to play nearly any abstract board game or puzzle in the world.

http://www.gamecabinet.com/
The Games Cabinet : a games magazine. Plenty of very good articles. However, it does not seem to be updated these times.

http://jducoeur.org/game-hist/
Dedicated to medieval games

http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/
The virtual Elliott Avedon Museum and archive of games from University of Waterloo.

http://www.geoludie.com/
Wonderful old boardgames from allover the World available on-line. Dead link?

http://www.lecomptoirdesjeux.com/
Ici aussi vous pourrez commander de magnifiques jeux.

http://www.msoworld.com/
Welcome to MSO Worldwide, a site run by the organisers of the Mind Sports Olympiad. You can find news, games, articles and links about board games, card games and puzzles here.

http://www.luckydog.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/games/index.htm
Very rich, in particular for Shogi variants, but not only.

http://papatilleul.fingonnet.fr/
A very nice blog about abstract games.
Le blog de Papatilleul, très bien fait, sur tous les "jeux abstraits". Vaut vraiment le détour.

ORIGINS AND HISTORY OF CHESS

http://www.schachquellen.de/
The REFERENCE for Chess origins on the web. Some facts, dates and bibliographic informations concerning the Initiative Group Königstein (IGK). Open-minded and very serious, by historians.
Le site le plus ouvert et le plus sérieux aussi sur l'origine des échecs. Maintenu par Gerhard Josten.

http://www.banaschak.net/
Peter Banaschak's new web site. He got his PhD on the subject of Chess history in China, Korea and Japan. Then, his contribution is of first importance. Also, I would like to acknowledge him here for his appreciated help.

http://www.goddesschess.com
"Alternative" chess history and chess miscellany. Archive of research materials.

http://www.charlottechess.com/BillWall.htm
A very good historical introduction with many dates and facts, from Bill Wall.
Un très bon résumé historique avec beaucoup de dates.

http://www.yutopian.com/games/
A high-quality presentation of Xiang-Qi origin and history.
Une excellente synthèse sur l'origine du Xiang-Qi chinois, avec de nombreuses données historiques et très documentée.

http://www.samsloan.com/origin.htm
Claiming that China gave birth to Chess. Why not, but the arguments sometimes lack of objectivity.(Dead link?)
Plaidoirie pour une origine chinoise, pas toujours très objective, d'après Sam Sloan.

http://www.iranchamber.com/sport/chess/chess_iranian_invention.php
The Persian claim, a page which protects all its images ... which are all stolen from me!.
Revendication d'une origine persanne, un texte qui protège ses images, toutes volées ici !

http://www.silk-road.com/newsletter/volumeonenumberone/origin.html
A good article linking Chess and the Silk Road

http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=1509
The greatest Chess puzzle, a review paper about the Chess origin issue.

http://historicgames.com/alphonso/index.html
The pleasure of staring at the rich illustrations of this medieval book on Chess and other board games. Also available the English translation by Sonja Musser and as well as her 1400 pages Ph D thesis.
Les magnifiques miniatures du codex d'Alfonso X. En plus, la traduction anglaise de Sonja Musser et sa thèse de plus de 1400 pages sur le sujet.

http://www.culture.fr/culture/arcnat/charavines/fr/cpjeu.htm
A page about the Chess pieces, among other games material, found in the archeological site of Colletière, Isère (near Grenoble), France.
Page sur le matériel de jeu, dont des pièces d'échecs trouvées sur le site lacustre (de l'an mil) de Colletière dans l'Isère, France.

http://classes.bnf.fr/echecs/index.htm
The site from the Bibliothèque Nationale de France where the Charlemagne set is conserved. Very nice photographs and illustrations. Alas, the history of origins is completely misunderstood.

http://www.crumiller.com/chess/chess_pages/jonchess.htm
Very nice antique chess sets

http://www.e-scacs.com/
A web site in Catalan with a good historical synthesis. For my Catalan friends, Catalan lands have played a major role in Chess history, several times, do not forget that!

http://www.charm.ru/
An excellent site about ancient Chinese coins. Few interesting illustrations about Xiangqi pieces.

http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/
An excellent site about ancient Indian coins. Few interesting illustrations about Indo-Greek and Kushan pieces.

http://www.kushan.org/
About the Kushans history. They founded an important empire in modern Afghanistan and could have played an important role in the birth of Chess.

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html
The Silk Road foundation.Tons of academic information about this famous trading route.

http://www.renate-syed.de/
Webpages of Prof. Renate Syed, indologist specialized in Chess early history.

http://www.mark-weeks.com/aboutcom/caa-hist.htm
Nice pages from Mark Weeks

http://www.chess-museum.com/metal-sets.html
The Chess Museum with a very rich collection and a lot of interesting pieces

(EUROPEAN) CHESS

http://www.fide.com/
Welcome to World Chess Federation.

http://www.chessgalaxy.com/
The world wide site devoted to chess nuts ! Brand new, it is going to be the next big think on chess on the web !
Ce site est en français et je le trouve absolument passionnant. Par François Chevaldonnet et Jean-Michel Péchiné, historiens des échecs. Visite très recommandée.

http://www.chesscollectors.com/
Chess Collector International. To see beautiful and unique Chess sets.

http://www.echecs.asso.fr/
Le site de la Fédération Française des Echecs.

http://www.echecs.com/
En français, pour jouer aux échecs en ligne

http://www.europe-echecs.com/
Le site du magazine "Europe Echecs".

http://www.notzai.com/notzai/index.shtml
Le fabuleux portail pour les Echecs francophones.

http://www.mark-weeks.com/chess/wcc-indx.htm
Records of all World Championships.

http://www.chessgraphics.net/
An incredible images bank on Chess. Invaluable.
Banque d'images incroyablement fournie d'après Alan Cowderoy.

http://www.eeir.com/
L'Ecole d'échecs et d'informatique des remparts crée par Jean-Pierre Cayrou à Tahiti. La orana à nos amis du Pacifique!

http://iechecs.com/
Site généraliste en français, orienté pédagogie, avec un échiquier en ligne. Très agréable. Bien maintenu par François Leysour de Rohello.

http://www.schackportalen.nu/
An vast and excellent portal with plenty of links about eveything about Chess, in Swedish, German, Spanish, French and English.
Vaste liste de liens commentés et triés sur tout ce qui concerne les échecs, en suédois, anglais, allemand, espagnol et - maintenant en français.

http://www.joueurdechecs.com/
un site sympa en français sur les échecs.

www.letsplaychess.com
Let's play Chess !

www.chess-books-online.com
Books Online: Chess books about chess openings, chess middlegames, chess endgames and many other chess related topics!

http://echecspassion.kelboreve.com/
Voici un site pour les débutants et joueurs confirmés jusqu'à un Elo de 1500 environ. Ce site se veut simple et facile à comprendre. Vous y trouverez des cours simples, avec des exercices à résoudre, et pleins d'autres choses sur les échecs !

http://www.chess-on-the-web.com
Chess Portal providing links to the best websites and content on the internet.

http://www.crumiller.com/chess/chess_pages/jonchess.htm
Jon's antique Chess collection. Excellent photographs. Some very ancient pieces.

http://www.jmrw.com/Chess/Tableau_echecs/index.htm
Wonderful collection of master paintings about Chess on this French web site. To be seen.

http://www.echecs-store.com/
Vente de jeux d'échecs. A visiter absolument.

CHESS VARIANTS

http://www.chessvariants.org/
For me, the best pages all over the web ! Everything about Chess variants is there. And if something is missing, please send your comment or contribution.
Les pages consacrées aux variantes des échecs, sous toutes leurs formes. Certainement l'un des meilleurs sites de tout le web ! The Chess Variant Pages, tenu par Hans Bodlaender, David Howe et plusieurs autres co-editeurs (dont moi-même).

http://ancientchess.com/
Chess Throughout History and Around the World, Rare and Unusual Chess Sets for Sale, Chess History and Evolution. You will find here very beautiful reproductions of antique and oriental sets.

http://courierchess.com/
A very nice reconstruction of this famous elarged chess variant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_variants: a good idea is start from here.

http://chavet-chess.ifrance.com/
Chavet Chess manufacturer of game material, especially Chess with an interesting selection of Xiangqi, Shogi and other special Chess.

http://www.tradgames.org.uk/
All what should be known about history of these varieties of Chess, Chaturanga, Shatranj, Xiang-Qi, Shogi, Sittuyin, by James Masters.
Le minimum à connaître sur l'histoire de plusieurs variantes.

http://www.mindsports.net/index-mindsports.html
Find and play the games invented by Christian Freeling.

http://www.superchess.nl/
Chess without opening theory from Henk van Haeringen, author of a Dutch book "Schaak en Superschaak van schaker tot Superschaker" on Chess variants which can be ordered on this site. Also the Exchess sets, sets of wonderful wooden exotic pieces, can be bought there!

http://users3.ev1.net/~llsmith/Jetan/Jetan.htm
Everything that should be known about Jetan, the Martian Chess. From L.Lynn Smith.

http://www.tasigh.org/takzh/index.html
The Authorized Klin Zha Homepage. The On-Line Source for the Playing, Promotion and Study of the Klingon Board Game of Klin Zha. Maintained by Kevin A. Geiselman.

http://www.omegachess.com/
Website of OMEGA Chess, a modern chess variant.

http://www.gothicchess.com/
Website of GOTHIC Chess, a 10x10 modern chess variant.

http://frcec.chess960.info/
The Fischer Random Chess email Club, a site about this variant promoted by Bobby Fischer. Discover it!

http://www.quadibloc.com/chess/cheint.htm
John Savard's page with many variants. Some of his own. Also, very nice graphics for Asian variants such as 7-Handed and 3-Handed Xiangqi.

XIANGQI

http://www.yutopian.com/chinesechess/
A mine of information about Xiangqi, the Chinese chess.

http://perso.club-internet.fr/jmchauvet/
(French) Le Bréviaire du Xiangqi. Tout sur les Echecs chinois.

http://private.addcom.de/dxb/
(German) Deutcher Xiangqi Bund / European Xiangqi Federation : Plenty of news about Xiangqi.

http://www.asianxiangqi.org/
The Asian Xiangqi Federation pages.

SHOGI AND SHOGI VARIANTS

http://www.teu.ac.jp/gamelab/SHOGI/shogipage.html
Reijer Grimbergen's Shogi page. Plenty of information about professional tournaments and players profile.

http://www.shogi.net/nexus/index.html
Many informations are avalaible here, although this site is not updated.

http://eric.macshogi.com/
The Shogi pages from Eric Cheymol.

http://acsa.shogivariants.com/
The American Chu Shogi Association.

http://www.chushogi.de/links.htm
The German Chu Shogi Association.

http://www.colina.demon.co.uk/chulib.html
A lively project on Chu Shogi from Colin Adams with games, software, history, ... Also, his book on Tenjiku Shogi can be downloaded. A must...
Le site de Colin Adams au sujet des variantes du Shogi. Avec son livre téléchargeable sur le Tenjiku Shogi, la Chu Shogi Library contenant l'histoire de ce jeu par Peter Banaschak.

http://trout.customer.netspace.net.au/
Here you can get Shogi Variants 1.55a, the wonderful freeware playing almost all known forms of Shogi, small and large. From Steve Evans.

http://www.ikechang.com/navi1e.htm
The Tendo Shogi Museum in Japan.

http://www.shogi.net/rjhare/shogi-intro.html
Very rich and complete pages on Shogi and its variants by Roger Hare.

http://shogi.alsace.free.fr
The website of the Association de Shogi d'Alsace, a very informative place with detailed rules. I borrowed few photographs there. Thanks to them.
Le site de l'Association de Shogi d'Alsace, très riche en information. J'y ai emprunté quelques illustrations, merci bien.

OTHER ASIAN CHESS

http://www.econ.pdx.edu/alumni/TVC/chess.htm
The Vuthy Tan's page on Cambodian Chess. The informations given here are precious. Rek, another Cambodian game is described as well.
BROKEN LINK. Fortunately, I had mirrored those pages before ! Look here

http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/chess/makruk.htm
Tim Krabbé reports having played Makruk in Cambodia.

http://www.thaistudents.com/chessclub/buy_thaichess.html
A place to buy a genuine Makruk set. (dead link)

http://www.khmerinstitute.org/culture/ok.html
The rules of Ok, or Cambodian Chess, from the Khmer Institute.

http://www.sriwittayapaknam.ac.th/chess.html
A Chess school in Thailand.

http://www.xmission.com/~gastown/afi/ch_index.htm
Roleigh Martin's page on Chinese (Xiangqi) and Korean Chess (Changgi)

http://www.geocities.com/kisslook/eng/engindex.html
The very interesting pages of Lev Kisliouk in English, Russian and Esperanto, with fascinating information about Shatar, the Mongolian Chess.

http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Field/2900/shataren.htm
Shatar, Mongolian Chess, played by AISE (Italia).

http://unicorn.ncat.edu/~michael/chess/
Homepage of Senterej, Ethiopian Chess.
Mirrored here for sake of safety.

OTHER BOARD GAMES

http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/w/x/wxk116/roma/rbgames.html
Pages dedicated to Roman board games as Latrunculi, Tabula, etc.

http://perso.orange.fr/bckg/french/accueil.htm
Un très bon site en français sur l'histoire du Backgammon par Fred ML.

http://www.hnefatafl.net/indexe.html
A presentation of the Hnefatafl, the strategic board game of the Vikings.

http://pbm.com/~lindahl/articles/kings_table.html
Another site on Hnefatafl.

http://www.shikanda.net/afrocentrism/rethink1.htm
"Diffusionism: geomantic divination and mankala board-games as instances of proto-globalisation", a full web-book from Wim van Binsbergen.

http://www.cultural-china.com/chinaWH/html/en/11two.html
Interesting pages with very nice illustrations about several Chinese games (Xiangqi, Liubo, Shuanglu, etc.) and Mongolian games (Shatar, ...)

http://luo-shu.com/
A very nice web site on Magic Squares.

http://www.draughtshistory.nl/
History of Draughts and Checkers by a worldwide recognized specialist: Adrie van der Stoep.