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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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