Sometimes chess doesn't make sense.

That is what you taught me?

"Knights in chaturanga can move normally like modern chess -_-"

What will you teach me next?

"The board in Chaturanga is the same board in modern chess." (except for the coloring).

I did think to donate this Chinese chess set to a Vietnamese shopping center near me, but I decided against it. Because it is against the no-form idea of Chinese chess.

@VerifiedChessYarshe

Stupid.

You're not just teaching me, you're also teaching everybody else.

The concept is bad.

In the movie Blade, the vampire's history is written in blood, human blood.

So is our own history. It is also written in blood.

That is where chess came from.

Knights are called horses in Chinese chess. It is implied that there is a rider.

Just like Elephant. Comes with a rider.

Just like Chariots, comes with a Ben Hur action figure. Each sold separately.

The reason why "horses" can be blocked in Chinese chess is because the Chinese are geniuses.

It comes with their thinking. Things and their opposite. Ying and Yang.

Horse being blocked on the adjacent orthogonal. Open and close. You can get in, but you can't get out.

Chariots (Rooks) and Cannons, direct and indirect.

Pawns after crossing the river, connect and disconnect.

Generals in their castle/capital, stationary and moving.

Elephants cannot cross the river, offense and defense.

You are calquing badly from Vietnamese. You are speaking gibberish. But my guess is you still speak gibberish even in Vietnamese.

1. We are not talking localities.

localities = place

We are talking about time. Time beyond your imagination. Thousands of years.

2. Elephants are synonymous with India. When are camels part of regular military unit in Indian warfare?

Calling the Bishop a Minister is calling the Elephant a Bishop. Which they do in Chinese chess. One side is Elephant 象, the other side is Minister 相.

3. The Rook is the fastest piece. It is a chariot. Watch Ben Hur. Elephants are not that fast. The bigger you are, the slower you are. Just because you call a Rook an Elephant does not mean you call it correctly.

Remember, the Elephant moves 2 squares diagonally, still does in Chinese chess.

4. It's also in Chinese. 馬. It is also in English, "horseman". Also in French, "cavalry".

5. One of us is wrong, and it is not me.

I was playing Chinese chess in a Phở restaurant, in a Vietnamese shopping mall, in America.

I captured a piece with my Knight.

He put me in check.

I retreat the Knight to block the check.

The guy told me i could not retreat the Knight, it was blocked on the adjacent orthogonal!

I would have won. I played Western chess for so long, I forgot that rule.

That is why the Chinese are so damned genius.

They invented the concept of you can get in but you can't get out on the chess board.

So genius.

There you go with your gibberish as I predicted.

You can go in the mud, you can't go out.

A coin goes into a slot machine, it can't go out.

In fighting, your neck goes into a guillotine, it can't go out.

In real war, you can go into Stalingrad, you can't go out.

There are innumerable situations in life that you can go in, but you can't go out.

This thread has educated me more than my 4th grade teacher ever did.

Dude, I feel you are obsessed with chinese or something, every time, you just appreciate their intelligence. Let me just say you something, Intelligence is something that comes from the way your brain processes stuff, and genes have no goddamn thing to do with it! Not all chinese are 'Genius'. Infact, I bet any part of the world could have geniuses. Its just the way your brain recognizes patterns and tries to process complex stuff and succeeds! Studies show that genes have not a single thing to do with the IQ!

I agree. And even the fact that ur iq only increases until u reached a point where all patterns are familliar with you. Ur iq doesn't change anymore from that point, the only thing that changes ur iq while playing chess is if u stop playing = ur iq gone lower or keep playing and ur iq is the same. Overall chess trains us patterns, but once completed all those, the iq stays the same. Wanna increase iq? Learn maths. Thats better. Even some geniuses that only needs maths and never did play chess. If he is a genius while playing xiangqi, thats xiangqi verse. Just ask him what is the result of 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+10+.... the result maybe infinite but some even say 1/12. He will just say infinite for sure, but if he did say infinite he would not know the other result.

The answer is -1/12 right? I bet I could solve this question and prove the answer to be -1/12

Im replying to longquach (so u not get misunderstand)

1. China is keeps Hinduism alive in Buddhism.

While India is not.

2. Where can you play street chess in Delhi? Nowhere.

While you can find street chess in China and Vietnam.

https://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/street-chess-in-delhi#comment-98853285

3. Western chess took over chess. Chaturanga is extinct. Gone, like the dinosaurs, bye bye.

-Chaturanga is the chess that our ancestors buff the chess that make us play chess in a fun way and more competitive and not boring. Chess.com still has Chaturanga. U should say Chess is "Updated Chaturanga"

Chinese chess kept the genes of Chaturanga.

The genes of Chaturanga that are no longer in Western chess but in Chinese chess.

The concept of Chinese chess is earlier than Chaturanga itself. Chess that u play right now got updated in the 12th century by Italians. The westerns copied the concept, but then updated and has more flexibility. It is easy to spot patterns than Xiangqi, espcially Xiangqi got cannons or "Pháo" which makes it more complex. Thats why Chinese chess concept was irrelavant and making chess a better board game. Chinese chess isnt keeping Chaturanga alive, Chaturanga itself is keeping it alive.

1. Radial symmetry.

2. Elephants. The name itself. They call their Chinese chess 象棋 Elephant game.

3. The move of the Elephant (Bishop). 2 squares diagonally.

3. The Vizier, the name. The Advisor.

4. The Vizier (Queen), the move, 1 square diagonally.

5. No 2 steps pawn, no en passant.

6. No castling.

7. No pawn promotion.

8. Stalemate is a win.

9. (Maybe) no repetition of moves

10. The name of the game 象棋 Elephant Game to point to India. The names in all over languages mean The Game of the King.

11. Chariot the name. (Rook).

12. They even draw a picture.

象

Elephant. 4 legs, 1 tail, 2 big ears, and a trunk.

車

Chariot. 2 wheels, an axle, and a box.

There are 30,000 Sanskrit words calqued into Chinese.

China keeps the memory of India alive.

Not all pieces move like xiangqi all the time. There isnt cannon or "pháo" like xiangqi. And instead of pawns eat pieces straight they eat diagonally like normal chess.

You stupid.

That's "chốt" in Vietnamese.

And you should learn Chinese. That's the root of Vietnamese.

"chốt" is only half correct. chốt = 卒.

On the red side, it's "binh" = 兵.

Learn some Chinese, like the Japanese do, so you don't have to be stupid.

That's "chốt" in Vietnamese.

And you should learn Chinese. That's the root of Vietnamese.

"chốt" is only half correct. chốt = 卒.

On the red side, it's "binh" = 兵.

Learn some Chinese, like the Japanese do, so you don't have to be stupid.