Author: Oliver Y.
Date: 07:21:00 05/18/02
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On May 17, 2002 at 11:37:02, Dan Andersson wrote: >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 Just curious, how much of what you say is verified? There are a huge number of texts that haven't been studied yet in Chinese. I realize the western chess corpus is really huge. If Chinese chess has been played for over a couple of millenia, they'd have developed something by today. I wouldn't rely on some Chinese colleagues as a reliable source re historical information.
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