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Subject: Re: ICGA site: 'Western' chess

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 18:15:19 01/10/03

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On January 10, 2003 at 21:04:55, GuyHaworth wrote:

>Chinese Chess
>Japanese Chess, i.e. Shogi
>Tsume-Shogi Problems, i.e. mating problems in Shogi
>'Western' Chess
>Western Chess Variants, starting with 'Qui Perde Gagne' or 'Losing Chess'.
>
>In this context, 'chess' as a lable is inadequate:  I think 'Western Chess' is
>the term but maybe others know better, in which case I'll change it.

How many games might be confused with "western chess" if you simply referred to
it as "chess"? If, for example, it would cause great confusion among players of
the game Chinese chess to refer to what they know as "western chess" as simply
"chess", then it is probably best to leave it as "western chess" or perhaps
"classical chess" or "international chess".

Perhaps you could also shed some light on which "chess" was the first. IE Did
"western chess" exist before Chinese chess or Japenese chess? It would be rather
unstable to refer to "western chess" as "chess" if, for example, Japenese chess
came before western chess.



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