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Category Archives: Chinese Chess

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Stalemate in Chinese Chess (AKA XiangQi)

Mar 1, 2023Davide NastasioChinese Chess, XiangQichess improvement, Chinese Chess, XiangQi

For a western chess player stalemate is a kind of curse or blessing depending on which side one is. If he’s losing the game, clearly a blessing, if he’s winning the game a curse. In XiangQi stalemate is ruled as a win. Yet for a western chess player who’s learning XiangQi, to see the “stalemate

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The rules of XiangQi.

Feb 21, 2023Davide NastasioChinese Chess, XiangQiChinese chess rules, regulations, XiangQi Laws

This article doesn’t want to be a substitute for reading the entire book of the rules as published by the World XiangQi Federation and approved also by the Chinese XiangQi Association. The same for the booklet published by the Asian XiangQi federation. Both these works are more comprehensive and treat the rules in a more

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The Art of Analysis

Jan 29, 2023Davide NastasioChinese Chess, XiangQiArt of analysis, chess, chess engine, Chinese Chess, Fabiano Caruana, Informant, Jan Timman, XiangQi

Few years back Jan Timman, one of the top 10 chess players in that time, published a book entitled: “the art of analysis.” Today we believe to know the truth about a position thanks to engines. But if engines were switched off, how would we evaluate a position? In fact Caruana, another top 10 player,

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How I got checkmated… today!

Jun 2, 2022Davide NastasioChinese Chess, XiangQiChinese Chess, XiangQi

Life like chess, or Chinese Chess, is always doing the opposite of what we hope, of what we wish in our hearts would happen. There is definitely no happy ending… generally the ending if one doesn’t have a massive stroke or heart attack, is in a diaper full of… well you can imagine… Today I

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Humans and Calculation…

Jun 1, 2022Davide NastasioChinese ChessChinese Chess, XiangQi

I’m trying to train for the 17th Chinese Chess World Championship, and since in chess we all know the saying: “Openings teach you openings, Endgames teach you chess” I began with very simple endgames, like King and Knight vs King and Elephant (in XiangQi the elephant is a kind of proto-bishop, like the queen today

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The importance of Imagination in Chinese chess!

May 29, 2022Davide NastasioChinese Chess, XiangQiChinese Chess, XiangQi

In Chess, as well as in Chinese Chess, there are some positions which are difficult to conquer. As always they defy our visualization in many ways. Let’s take the following position found on a beginner’s book of over a quarter of a century ago! Here I spent a good amount of time analyzing the knight

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Comparison between XiangQi and Chess

May 19, 2022Davide NastasioChinese Chess, XiangQiChinese Chess, World XiangQi Championship, XiangQi

In October there will be the 17th World XiangQi Championship, generally the true World Champion is the guy who wins the Chinese Championship, but also for this tournament, I don’t remember it to be won by a non-Chinese. Since it will be in Malaysia, a beautiful country, I’m thinking of participating… obviously some preparation is

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