why so less chinese chess competitors?
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Priorities since it seems like you’re taking offense to my statement…
makki42 wrote:
Priorities since it seems like you’re taking offense to my statement…
you seem very easily triggered bro
9 days ago
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#44
Surprised people are still claiming the political angle when I thought I'd explained it pretty well tbh. In China, regular chess has to compete with Xiangqi so straight away it's a split audience. Chess.com is not blocked in China; I frequently played, and posted on the forums, the whole time I lived in China. But Western apps have the issue that most android users in China are not seeing the Play store; they are seeing a Chinese app store that will generally push locally made apps first. And on desktop, they'll search for chess via Baidu, which will do the same.
I suspect that it's the same with iPhone but I don't know.
Aa they have their own chess app Xiangqi, well that explains it thank you very much! No need to speculate more. Perhaps it's just a better more popular option there. Not everyone is keen to internationalism and more invested in giving the profits to locals than other countries. I get it.
I like to buy locally produced products rather than big international brands. If more people would do it food would be cheaper in general, but many are brainwashed by brand advertising. Big companies having all the power in pricing is a big problem in The Netherlands. A lot of people, over a million go regularly to buy food from Germany because food is cheaper there. But yeah this doesn't have anything to do with chess, but focusing on local products is probably the reason for decline of Chinese players here. To keep the money flowing into China rather than elsewhere.
9 days ago
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#48
Yes. I should add that of course there is no reason that multiple games cannot coexist, and in the western world we obviously have many board games.
It's just that xiangqi tends to take the place of chess in china, because it is the game played by smart people in a park with people on the sidelines discussing the tactics and strategy. It occupies the space that chess does for most of the rest of the world.
...which was frustrating for me living in china, because I never really fell for xiangqi. So I stayed playing regular chess, in fancy western clubs, against either fellow expats or Chinese people who could speak English fluently and had lived or studied out of China. It didn't help connect with most local chinese.