Author: Dan Andersson
Date: 08:37:02 05/17/02
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I did not mean to say that the study of one of the chess variants make you a better allround chess player. But the International version has a more developed corpus of scores, knowledge, training and discipline. It has been an international sport for a long time. And has had input from several radical and influential thinkers .The observations you made seems reasonable. And it probably depends on the level of competition in Chinese Chess and International Chess at any locale where they are reasonably large. But other games like Go may drain the competitive pool also. The less talented in the larger game will have a greater tendency to gravitate to the less competitive game. The Chinese government decided to go for International chess for the prestige. They used their standard technique. Find a large mass of young talent and apply pressure until a handful remain. And what better way to find talent than by using a simile game with a large user base. MvH Dan Andersson
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