Anyone able to read Thai?
Posted: Sun Apr 26, 2015 10:03 pm
I was trying to find some information about strategy/relevant evaluation for Thai Chess (Makruk), but just about the only information I was able to find in English is a handful of websites that discuss the rules, a quote by Kramnik that it's a more strategic game than Western Chess, and Tim Krabbé's notes on the game, none of which are particularly useful.
So I decided to try and find out if there was anything useful in Thai, with the help of Google Translate (the relevant search term, thanks to Wikipedia, is "หมากรุก"). So I ended up at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... RaiUNbUeMA, which seems reasonably useful, but part of the content is in videos (which I can't watch because they require flash) and behind a pay-wall anyway. Google translate is somewhat suboptimal (ahem), since the page I linked to above seems to be about pawn structure, but is titled "the next great sex" and starts off with some gibberish about horizontal lesbian couples and continues further down with trying to get it on with multiple partners (from the diagrams it seems to be about a d4/e4 pawn centre). There are some other priceless gems on there as well, if you're feeling bored.
Anyway, I was wondering if there might not be someone here who would be able to do a better job than Google on some of this?
So I decided to try and find out if there was anything useful in Thai, with the help of Google Translate (the relevant search term, thanks to Wikipedia, is "หมากรุก"). So I ended up at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... RaiUNbUeMA, which seems reasonably useful, but part of the content is in videos (which I can't watch because they require flash) and behind a pay-wall anyway. Google translate is somewhat suboptimal (ahem), since the page I linked to above seems to be about pawn structure, but is titled "the next great sex" and starts off with some gibberish about horizontal lesbian couples and continues further down with trying to get it on with multiple partners (from the diagrams it seems to be about a d4/e4 pawn centre). There are some other priceless gems on there as well, if you're feeling bored.
Anyway, I was wondering if there might not be someone here who would be able to do a better job than Google on some of this?