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A Beginners Guide To Xiangqi Chinese Elephant Chess
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Author :Tyler Rea Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781500756871 Total Pages :190 pages Book Rating :4.7/5 (568 download)
Book Synopsis A Beginners Guide to Xiangqi Chinese Elephant Chess by : Tyler Rea
Download or read book A Beginners Guide to Xiangqi Chinese Elephant Chess written by Tyler Rea and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014-08-29 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Beginners Guide to Xiangqi Chinese Elephant Chess covers the play & details of China's most popular board game. The layout of the playing board, movement and capturing tactics of the Xiangqi pieces, 2 standard example games, Do's and Don't of opening play, Checkmate methods and Glossary of terms.
Download or read book Chinese Chess written by H.T. Lau and published by Tuttle Publishing. This book was released on 2011-12-20 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the ancient and fascinating game of Chinese Chess with this expert guide. Chinese chess, or "elephant chess," has intrigued the powerful and the quizzical for centuries. Although its rules are similar to the well-known Western game, subtle and fascinating variations must be mastered in order to understand the strategies it requires. A great way to learn Chinese Chess, this book is simple enough for Chess beginners but contains a wealth of information and tips that experienced players will find useful as well. In Chinese Chess, author H.T. Lau explains the game's fundamentals--the rules, the board, and the basics with dozens of insightful diagrams. With the aid of 170 diagrams, Chinese Chess walks players through the board, the movement and values of the pieces, basic rules for capturing and defeating an opponent, techniques and game-winning tactics. Once he's covered the basics, Lau introduces advanced tactics, methods for escaping difficult positions, and cunning strategies for winning. This book includes eighty mid- and end-game exercises designed to sharpen playing skills and strategy and concludes with two appendices devoted to the elegantly constructed games found in The Secret Inside the Orange and The Plum-Blossom Meter, two classic seventeenth-century works on Chinese chess.
Download or read book Modern China written by Xiaobing Li and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an indispensable resource for students, educators, businessmen, and officials investigating the transformative experience of modern China, this book provides a comprehensive summary of the culture, institutions, traditions, and international relations that have shaped today's China. In Modern China, author Xiaobing Li offers a resource far beyond a conventional encyclopedia, providing not only comprehensive coverage of Chinese civilization and traditions, but also addressing the values, issues, and critical views of China. As a result, readers will better understand the transformative experience of the most populous country in the world, and will grasp the complexity of the progress and problems behind the rise of China to a world superpower in less than 30 years. Written by an author who lived in China for three decades, this encyclopedia addresses 16 key topics regarding China, such as its geography, government, social classes and ethnicities, gender-based identities, arts, media, and food, each followed by roughly 250 short entries related to each topic. All the entries are placed within a broad sociopolitical and socioeconomic contextual framework. The format and writing consistency through the book reflects a Chinese perspective, and allows students to compare Chinese with Western and American views.
Book Synopsis Chinese Chess Or Xiangqi Book of Board Game Strategy by : John Mamoun
Download or read book Chinese Chess Or Xiangqi Book of Board Game Strategy written by John Mamoun and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-20 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Chinese board game of Xiangqi, or Chinese Chess, has been played for over 1,000 years. However, few books have been published in the English language on the strategy of Chinese Chess. Now, this 367 page book demonstrates optimal strategies, verified by modern computer analysis. The book is heavily illustrated with pictographic chess board diagrams, similar to diagrams in international chess books. These picture pieces are easier to visualize than classical Xiangqi Chinese character piece labels. Excessive use of algebraic notation is avoided, making it easier to follow game annotations, and to evaluate positions. This Chinese chess book is an easier way for English speakers to learn this complex, baffling and counter-intuitive board game, that has a tactical language quite different from that of international chess. Various topics are covered: ● Xiangqi Rules ● Opening Game Theory ● Middle Game and End Game Tactics ● Beginning, Intermediate and Expert Strategies ● Fully Annotated Games with Play-by-play analysis ● Hundreds of Illustrations - An Actual Board is Not Needed to Follow Annotated games!
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Author :Yilun Yang Publisher :Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN 13 :9781976297243 Total Pages :194 pages Book Rating :4.2/5 (972 download)
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Book Synopsis A History of Chess by : Harold James Ruthven Murray
Download or read book A History of Chess written by Harold James Ruthven Murray and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Street Teaching in the Tenderloin written by Don Stannard-Friel and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an ethnographic account of San Francisco’s most inner city neighborhood, the Tenderloin. Using its streets as campus and its people as teachers, Stannard-Friel uses storytelling as a way of explaining why inner city social problems, such as homelessness, drugs, prostitution, untreated mental illness, and death of young people by murders and suicides, exist and persist there. The work delves into who lives in the Tenderloin and why, the role of dedicated service providers in meeting people’s needs and encouraging social change, and what lessons university students, many coming from their own challenging backgrounds, learn through community engagement and service learning that encourage understanding, compassion, and meaningful contributions to society. The work also explores how life in the area is changing, and why so many youth report that they “love living in the Tenderloin.”
Book Synopsis The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants by : David Brine Pritchard
Download or read book The Classified Encyclopedia of Chess Variants written by David Brine Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Chess written by C. K. Lai and published by Raymond Keene. This book was released on 2005 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. K. Lai is a well known Xiangqi player and enthusiast who has written and translated a dozen books on the subject, and is still writing, though less frequently nowadays. There was a time when he produced two books a year, among them his first book Chinese Chess, An Introduction To The Openings, Checkmate In Two, and Chess Of The Wuzhi Mountain (in collaboration with Mr. Shu Ming Li of San Francisco). Translations include Chinese Chess, The Endgame Technique, Victories All The Way, and Fifty Games Of GM Li Laiqun. With a few Xiangqi friends he promoted the game in Britain some two decades ago, helping to create the UK Chinese Chess Association. He is certainly at the forefront of promotion of the game in Britain. One of C. K. Lai's high achievements in Xiangqi competitions was in 1994 when he won the 11th European Xiangqi Championship held in Amsterdam. He also won on several occasions the UK Xiangqi Championship. He is Editor of Chinese Chess Cyber Newsletter, a simple web site based in London which attracts many Xiangqi followers.
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Book Synopsis A World of Chess by : Jean-Louis Cazaux
Download or read book A World of Chess written by Jean-Louis Cazaux and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 400 illustrations, and detailed maps, this immense and deeply researched account of the history of chess covers not only the modern international game, derived from Persian and Arab roots, but a broad spectrum of variants going back 1500 years, some of which are still played in various parts of the world. The evolution of strategic board games, especially in India, China and Japan, is discussed in detail. Many more recent chess variants (board sizes, new pieces, 3-D, etc.) are fully covered. Instructions for play are provided, with historical context, for every game presented.
Book Synopsis Understanding the Elephant by : Jim Hau Cheng Png
Download or read book Understanding the Elephant written by Jim Hau Cheng Png and published by Jim PNG Hau Cheng. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chinese Chess, or Xiangqi which is the preferred official term, is the most played board game or form of chess in the Orient. Xiangqi is the Hanyu Pinyin for Elephant Chess (xiang and qi respectively) in Chinese. Yet despite its popularity inside Asia, it pales in comparison in the West. Understanding the Elephant: A Xiangqi Primer is a series of books aimed at promoting the game to the West. Many have heard about the story of the blind men touching different parts of an elephant before giving a description of what the thought an elephant would look like. They were all correct and yet they were all wrong at the same time. Understanding the Elephant would hope to take away that blindfold, to allow the reader to see Xiangqi in its full splendour. It also represents the books or information that the author wished he had when he first started learning the game decades ago. In the second part of the series, there will be two sections. The first section is a detailed explanation of the basics of Xiangqi (which is the preferred term for Chinese Chess) can be found. Detailed explanations of the basic terms used in everyday play has been provided with figures wherever possible. The reader would learn basic terminology like the various names of important intersections on the board, the horses when attacking, the names of the different formations involving the cannons, various defensive formations et cetera. Notation is also covered in great detail in the same chapter. The second section would be devoted to the basic kills in Xiangqi. The author has classified over thirty different basic kills for the reader to master. The names of the basic kills, how they are done and examples of the basic kills in actual games by Xiangqi masters and grandmasters have also been collected. There are over a hundred examples with hundreds figures showing different positions with detailed explanations to guide the reader. The original Chinese phrases with Hanyu Pinyin has also been added wherever possible so that interested readers can do their own study. The entire book contains well over four hundred figures. After going through the explanations and examples, the reader should be able to grasp the basics of the game and lay a firm foundation for future play.
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Book Synopsis First Syllabus on Xiangqi by : David H. Li
Download or read book First Syllabus on Xiangqi written by David H. Li and published by . This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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