Author: Keith Evans
Date: 15:31:42 06/05/02
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On June 05, 2002 at 18:12:42, Dan Andersson wrote: >>DO you understand chinese characters ? >>IF you won't , you can't play chinese chess . >And that is harder than understanding other ideograms like abstract chess >notation? Don't think so. But it's true you will have to learn them. And it will >probably take how many minutes? > >MvH Dan Andersson Probably anybody looking for strong software already knows the characters. For anybody else 5 to 10 minutes of study should be sufficient. It's no different than learning to recognize the international chess pieces. I'll bet that beginners confuse the king and queen pieces in international chess. Some of the Xiangqi pieces are constrained in their movements, so they are especially easy. For instance I doubt that anybody has trouble with the general and the advisors. A big plus is that you don't have to remember where the white corner of the board goes ;-) Regards, Keith
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