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Subject: Re: Switching from Shogi to Chess and reaching an IM WOW !!!

Author: Aaron Tay

Date: 08:18:49 05/17/02

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On May 17, 2002 at 09:18:52, Dan Andersson wrote:

>Nothing very surprising about that. Good chess players play excellent
>Crazyhouse. And western Chess players usually have an easy time breaking in to
>Chinese Chess. An usual scenario is that an exchange student introduces chinese
>Chess and after a short while he is the pupil of his western chess playing
>students in his own game. The overlap is large. And some people make great game
>players period.
>
>MvH Dan Andersson

I come from Singapore where the  culture is that both chinese chess and
International Chess are roughly equally popular (We have 2 different federations
for each, and both hold international touranments) and my experience is that
switching from the former to latter is easer than the other way around.

In my college team, there were several players whose first preference is chinese
Chess but eventually made the international Chess team. There were none in the
reverse situation..

Also I've read many of the Top chessplayers in China actually learnt chinese
Chess first but because competition was too stiff switched to Chess..




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