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Interview with David Li on the Chessbase site
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| Mc Kiernan, Daniel Kian 2005-06-17, 8:32 pm |
| Thank you for providing this link!
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| Alain Dekker 2005-06-19, 8:31 pm |
| I actually read that article before seeing this post. I recommend it. Li
comes across as very knowledgable about Western chess (for whom the article
is written) while at the same time giving readers a flavour of CC. I do
recall that he wanted to rename chess "QueenQi" in honour of chess's
obcession with the "unnaturally powerful" queen! :o)
All very amusing and at times quite wise!
Have a read...
Alain Dekker
"Keith" <chen.evans@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1118947020.034678.203660@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
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>I saw this mentioned in a thread on rec.games.chess.misc:
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> http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2455
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> Regards,
> Keith
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| David H Li 2005-07-14, 8:33 pm |
| Keith wrote:
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>Keith wrote:
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>Part 2 is now up:
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>http://chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=2515
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If I may say so myself, the interview, about the superiority of Xiangqi
over western chess, and about playing Xiangqi being an exercise of one's
mind, is very well done.
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>I wonder where they bought that 3 player Xiangqi board. I could not
>find one in China, and never noticed anyone playing 3 player Xiangqi
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Well, Xiangqi is a war-simulation game. At one time, during the Three
Kingdom Period (220-280) China had three powers. So a triangular
Xiangqi was developed to test various strategies (joining A and B to
attack C, or joining A and C to attack B, etc.) In my book, Genealogy
of Chess, at p 273, there is a triangular Xiangqi playing board.
Indeed, on pagd 271, I also show a heptagonal Xiangqi playing board, to
simulate the condition during the Warring States Period (475-220 BCE).
David Li
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| David H Li wrote:
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> Keith wrote:
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> Well, Xiangqi is a war-simulation game. At one time, during the Three
> Kingdom Period (220-280) China had three powers. So a triangular
> Xiangqi was developed to test various strategies (joining A and B to
> attack C, or joining A and C to attack B, etc.) In my book, Genealogy
> of Chess, at p 273, there is a triangular Xiangqi playing board.
> Indeed, on pagd 271, I also show a heptagonal Xiangqi playing board, to
> simulate the condition during the Warring States Period (475-220 BCE).
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> David Li
I was more curious about the popularity of this variant in modern time.
As a casual observer and shopper it appeared to me that this game is
not played much at all in mainland China. Is this correct, or did I
just look in the wrong places?
Regards,
Keith
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