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Anyone playng chess or draughts/checkers in Hua Hin?

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Coming to HH for about 3 months..Staying in the Huana area with my g/f..Anyone like to play Chess or draughts/checkers now and then..? In the day or evening..
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V4281051 wrote:Coming to HH for about 3 months..Staying in the Huana area with my g/f..Anyone like to play Chess or draughts/checkers now and then..? In the day or evening..
Welcome to the forum V4281051....

When are you arriving in HH....

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I'm useless but can move the pieces.
And I get beaten but I'll learn.
And if you're into backgammon - I can lose that as well!!
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lomuamart wrote:I'm useless but can move the pieces.
And I get beaten but I'll learn.
And if you're into backgammon - I can lose that as well!!
Lomu

Sorry.... Chess I can play.... Any others are out the window

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For anyone who might be interested.........you'll usually find middle age and a few oldies playing chess outside the wet market in town, on the Petchasem side. I'm not sure whether you pay to play there, or if any betting goes on, but it seems as though it's just a matter of anyone sitting down for a game with whoever.


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Is this not Thai Chess what they play, the rules are quite different
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Just looked in my archives and I have a photo of some guys playing and can see the pieces but it is 500kb so I cannot upload it as too big and cannot work out how to shrink it :banghead:
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See the 2nd post on this thread viewtopic.php?f=14&t=16714
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Thanks BB. :cheers:
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this is definitely Thai Chess the pieces look different to western chess
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pitsch wrote:this is definitely Thai Chess the pieces look different to western chess


Ahhh.......so there are no rules then. :laugh: :thumb:


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I will be arriving in HH in a couple of weeks..I will contact people then if I can ..by posting or private message..
Thanks for all replies..I have seen men playing by the old market..Looks like draughts/checkers to me but not sure..
Would even like to keep my brain active with Scrabble also..
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pitsch wrote:this is definitely Thai Chess the pieces look different to western chess
bit confused , what is western chess ?
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Sorry, should I say Indian Chess. I mean the chess played normally by westeners (and others).
Here is a link to the explanation:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makruk
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Sorry I'm with you , kow what u mean
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