If you played Chinese chess, a single pawn coming down is like a slow knife coming for your throat.
The pawn in Chinese chess is a Mini-Me Rook.
Western chess is incredibly balanced.
So is Chinese chess. The Chariot (Rook) is the most powerful piece. But the weakest pieces, slowest piece is just as good. You can kill with fast weapons and slow weapons.
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I missed the days at my previous work place.
I play Chinese chess with a Chinese guy and talk about life.
The guy was talented. He's was born China, a Chinese citizen, but he taught at University of Maryland, mathematics and economics.
He doesn't to go college in America, he teaches college in America.
I told him I'm learning Chinese because Vietnamese is half Chinese just like English is half French.
Him: The Norman Invasion, 1066.
Me: How do you know? (I know because I listened to Seth Lerer's The History of the English Language lectures.)
Him: I love history.
The guy is a genius.
Young kid, he was about 24.
I gave him 2 cornerstones of Western Civilization.
The Bible, KJV and Bulfinch Mythology. Books and complete audio.
I don't need anything from him. I know all the stuffs. 36 Stratagems, The Art of War (I have it on bamboo strips), Journey to the West, etc . . .
The world is a big place, and you need as many blind men as you can get.
If you truly want pawn promotions removed, how about you make a variant where there aren't pawn promotions and find a way to-well this is ironic-promote it so other people play it. See how popular it gets.
I told him I'm learning Chinese because Vietnamese is half Chinese just like English is half French.
Yes English is thought to be between 28% and 30% French origination. That's not too far away from half.
Almost like Star Trek, The Mirror Universe.
I'm giving you The Mirror Universe.
In the Mirror Universe, they play chess
no pawn promotion
stalemate is a win
no castling
1 step pawns
no perpetual check
etc . . .
And if you know anything about The Mirror Universe, you know there's a Mirror smack talking Botez (I can't tell which is which) there too.
Straight out of Star Trek.
In the Mirror Universe, there's a Cinderella too.
Straight out of Star Trek.
You actually get to play Star Trek: The Mirror Universe.
It is your loss if you are not interested.
I'll live.
Can you defeat your counterpart in The Mirror Universe?
I can.
The Internationally accepted rules make sense and are better than the old variations.
A little misleading.
The International Chess (They call it that in China too.) is Western chess.
Western chess is one form of chess. Chinese chess is another. One is not more "International" than the other.
If anybody is international, it's the Chinese. There's a Chinatown in every country.
Go is a Chinese game. They don't call it International Go.
I'm "international". I'm Vietnamese-American and I play both chess.
The Chinese language is the "international" language.
象 That's an elephant, because it is a glyph of an elephant.
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I think you have some very strange opinions.
Hi, well, I'm English, not American, and so I wouldn't use the word "offensively", which has evolved to mean something very different.
Well, I'm Vietnamese-American and I don't know soccer, what you call football.
But in soccer, aren't there "defensive" players? Players who don't cross the midfield to score but focus on defense?
Well people are becoming more offensive all the time and if someone did to me what they do to each other as a matter of course I would have belted them. Wouldn't have stopped playing but just made sure they knew football isn't wrestling.
We have attacking players and defensive ones. The Americans have offensive players and defensive ones but they have different linguistic traditions. To English ears, "offensive players" sounds ridiculous. We probably sound ridiculous to them.
As I see the OP does not interfere
As I see the OP does not interfere
OP is simply OP. He does not hold the power if we do not let him.
To English ears, "offensive players" sounds ridiculous. We probably sound ridiculous to them.
I understand. "Offensive" is negative in the social sense. As in "offender" in the legal sense.
I'm using it the French way, in the "alien from outer space way."
of-fense is the opposite of de-fense. Defensive - offensive.
I think you have some very strange opinions.
Specify. As in be specific.
OP is simply OP. He does not hold the power if we do not let him.
The OP has not been on chess.com for 8 days, did you lock him in a garage?
To English ears, "offensive players" sounds ridiculous. We probably sound ridiculous to them.
Not ridiculous at at all.
Rener Gracie coined the term "self offense" (as a negative thing), unlike the more palatable "self defense".
The US.
Depart of War
Depart of Defense
Trump wants to change it back to The Department of War.
If there is a department of defense, where is the department of offense?
We don't want to be labeled as the "offender". We are only "defending" ourselves.
There should be a legal concept of "self offense" ala the Death Wish movies.
Same with the UK Ministry of Defence instead of The War Office.
I just looked it up.
It is your loss if you are not interested.
I'll live.
You gamble how you want to gamble in life.
I lived and worked inside the beltway, Washington DC for about 40 years.
I got my thinking from Western chess. The Queen is the most powerful piece. I was so wrong.
The King and the Palace itself is the most powerful piece.
I don't have a car, never learned to drive.
Inside the beltway itself the bus systems and the subway system can take me anywhere. There are city buses and metro buses.
When I lost my job due to Covid (the reason doesn't matter), I should have tried to stay inside the beltway doing whatever.
Now I'm stranded out here in Centreville, VA. And all I have is $35 bicycle from Goodwill, starting from scratch again.
You equip yourself with one kind of thinking and not of another kind, your perception is partial and flawed.
Everybody should know about the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant, also from India.