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Chinese Chess: An Introduction to China's Ancient Game of Strategy by H. T. Lau

Chinese Chess: An Introduction to China's Ancient Game of Strategy H. T. Lau ebook
Page: 248
ISBN: 9781462903481
Format: pdf
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing

China took over management on Monday of Pakistan's Gwadar port, en route to key Hormuz Straits oil shipping lanes, in a move which has prompted nerves in India about its fellow Asian giant's growing strategic clout. As Go, can teach non-Chinese how to see the geostrategic “board” the same way that Chinese leaders do, he says. Nothing more proletarianly beautiful than seeing a bunch of Mao capped gentlemen, last remnants of the revolution, put their intellectual superiority – after all, they won a nation – back to work in a more peaceful, strategic pastime than Chinese chess. The first Chinese books on xiangqi strategy were written in the 5th century AD. With the game's complexity, one would really wonder who invented chess since it is very much apparent that it is a cut miles above other board games and past times that appeared across the history of man. Learning the ancient board game of wei qi, known in the U.S. Li, a retired accountant, professor of accounting and translator of ancient Chinese texts, hypothesizes that general Han Xin drew on the earlier game of Liubo to develop an early form of Chinese chess in the winter of 204–203 BC. Over the years the pieces were The game has evolved over the years to make it more spectator-friendly and speed chess was introduced but we can all still appreciate the subtleties of a game that has ancient origins and was even used as a way to devise war strategies and requires high levels of intelligence to play. Indian elites and the masses didn't know full well the rules and strategies (let alone a massive Chess culture such as that in China) of how to play Chess as late as the beginning of the 20th century until the British masters introduced it to them! In its ancient An alternative origin theory contends that chess arose from Xiangqi or a predecessor thereof, existing in China since the 2nd century BC. Wei qi, the game of “surrounding,” has long been For starters, some say, comparing national strategic thought to popular sports and games is an over-simplification—and at any rate, the Chinese version of chess has lots of adherents in China, too. 16 - As a partner to last week's piece “The Ten Sporting Things You Can Get In India You Can't Get In China,” we now turn the tables and look at the Chinese side of sporting events. The game seems to have been played centuries ago in China, India and Persia before it was introduced to Europe by Moorish invaders.