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| Alain Dekker 2005-07-14, 8:33 pm |
| Is there any book like the ECO in chess that covers Xiangqi openings? I'm
finding n my games that I'm doing much better as Black than as red -
probably because I'm simply reacting to my opponents strategy, rather then
trying to take the iniative. I presume that the statistics in CC show that
Red has an opening advantage?
Where can I learn more about the openings,and especially how not to blunder
within 5 moves?
Thanks,
Alain
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| Alain Dekker wrote:
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> Is there any book like the ECO in chess that covers Xiangqi openings? I'm
> finding n my games that I'm doing much better as Black than as red -
> probably because I'm simply reacting to my opponents strategy, rather then
> trying to take the iniative. I presume that the statistics in CC show that
> Red has an opening advantage?
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> Where can I learn more about the openings,and especially how not to blunder
> within 5 moves?
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> Thanks,
> Alain
Regarding ECO, you could browse around here:
http://cchessengine.512j.com/ecco.htm
-Keith
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| Alain Dekker 2005-07-16, 8:32 pm |
| That looks like just the thing, but I don't know Chinese!
Anything in English? With standard English notation (C2=5, C8=5, B3+5 etc)?
Thanks,
Alain
"Keith" <chen.evans@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Alain Dekker wrote:
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> Regarding ECO, you could browse around here:
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> http://cchessengine.512j.com/ecco.htm
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> -Keith
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| David H Li 2005-07-16, 8:32 pm |
| Alain Dekker wrote:
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>That looks like just the thing, but I don't know Chinese!
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>Anything in English? With standard English notation (C2=5, C8=5, B3+5 etc)?
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>Thanks,
>Alain
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Alain, I thought you bought a copy of the second edition of your
multi-talented team captain, C. K. Lai's book on openings. As you know,
in Xiangqi, four pieces may be used to open a game -- in descending
order of frequency: Cannon, Elephant, Pawn, and Horse. These are also
the pieces featured in volumes 2 through 5 in my series on Xiangqi. In
each volume, about one-half of the pages is devoted to openings,
complete with games, some from the most World Xiangqi Championship.
I was in Singapore in 1995 when the World Xiangqi Federation promulgated
the English-language rendition of Xiangqi pieces and of move notations.
So, when I was asked to do a book on Xiangqi in English (First Syllabus
on Xiangqi - Chinese Chess 1, published in 1996), I was able to
incorporate these promulgations (in that volume as well as in all
subsequent volumes). Indeed, when that first volume appeared, I
happened to be in Beijing on a World Bank consulting assignment, so I
hand-delivered copies of this volume and confirmed English renditions
and notations, in person, with the WXF staff.
Again, good luck in Paris. In Hong Kong in 2003, I might say that I was
the first one to alert your fellow teammate and another good friend
mine, Peter Wood, that he had won a prize in WXC8. (I have annotated a
Pawn-opening game by Peter, winning while playing Black, in WXC7, in my
Xiangqi Syllabus on Pawn - Chinese Chess 4.) We expect nothing less from
you.
David Li
author of Premier Series on Xiangqi
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