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Adam OnzaAnthro <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> & <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/shogi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shogi</a> pieces. It reminds me of a classic Canadian cartoon were blocks & balls fought.

mock<a href="https://photog.social/@FotoVorschlag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@FotoVorschlag</a> in der ruhe liegt die kraft<a href="https://social.cologne/tags/fotovorschlag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fotovorschlag</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/mockfotos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mockfotos</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#photography</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/spiel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#spiel</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#game</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/%E8%B1%A1%E6%A3%8B" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#象棋</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/C%E1%BB%9Dt%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Cờtướng</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/travel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#travel</a> <a href="https://social.cologne/tags/vietnam" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vietnam</a>

Adam OnzaImagine if there was a circular <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a>. EG one side attacks from the land around a pond. (Which takes the place of the river) And the other side is on an island in the pond. I don't mean anything political by it, but it could be easily seen as political.🥶Imagine if various <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/boardgames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#boardgames</a> were circular or cylinderical.🤔

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦This is another puzzle that I found interesting, amusing, or just plain fiendishly difficult. (I won't tell you which of the three to protect my ego.) This is problem 94 from the books. The first image is the problem, the second is the solution following the arrow sequence of red-yellow-green. Don't look at it if you want to try the challenge yourself. Red to move, checkmate in two. A side note: I'm really enjoying the power of the cannon/horse pairing. --- <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/象棋?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#象棋</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Xiangqi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ChineseChess?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChineseChess</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ChessProblems?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChessProblems</a> <a class="u-url" href="https://pixelfed.social/@zdl@mastodon.online" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@zdl@mastodon.online</a>

Adam OnzaBought potstickers, which seem like gyoza.🤔 Are they gyoza?I also bought tools & materials to make Xiangqi pieces. I did it before. They were pretty amateurish, but I'll do better. I'll be the biggest manufacturer of <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/Xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a> pieces for at least 5 miles.🕶️

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦I have always enjoyed playing 象棋 (Xiàngqí, a.k.a. Chinese Chess). I find it a superior game, in terms of actual enjoyment, to Chess. But I suck at it. Which is weird because usually people hate doing things they're bad at. Recently I picked up a pair of books of endgame tactics. This is because SO said, and I quote, "While you're terrible at every phase of play, it is the very technical endgame that you suck at most." Isn't he a dear? Anyway, the result is that I'm plugging away in my very spare time at solving endgame puzzles and occasionally I find one that I think is interesting, amusing, or is just plain fiendishly difficult. I've decided to start sharing these. When I do I won't tell you if I found it interesting, amusing, or difficult because I don't want to embarrass myself. This is problem 89 from the books. The first image is the problem, the second is the solution following the arrow sequence of red-yellow-green. Don't look at it if you want to try the challenge yourself. Red to move, checkmate in two. --- <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/象棋?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#象棋</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Xiangqi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ChineseChess?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChineseChess</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ChessProblems?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChessProblems</a> <a class="u-url" href="https://pixelfed.social/@zdl@mastodon.online" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@zdl@mastodon.online</a>

Dominique LorreMods are definitely coming to Caïssa Board, I've finally managed to send some content to Steam... This will be useful for games, scripts and chess sets.It's a necessary step before finalizing shogi andf xiangqi because I don't want to have to break things later again.I need to devise a system to delete the game files after they have been added to the database, so that they won't use extra space since they can be as large as 10 gigabytes...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamedev</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shogi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shogi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a>

Adam OnzaI read about mini <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> on this site a long time ago, (with Alta Vista's translate , maybe?) but it seems different than I remember. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20181010033853/http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Spade/8662/mi.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20181010033853/http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Spade/8662/mi.html</a>

Adam OnzaI put my 2 <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> sets together to try to figure out which pieces were which. The fancy set is pretty obvious, but the cheap set has hard to read calligraphy. It's quite a stretch of imagination to ID some pieces. Though it's probably quite easy, once you know.

Adam OnzaThe cheap <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> set. The board is printed on very thin plastic, that seems to cling to surfaces, like cling film.🤔 It suits my desire for a cheap set, although the sides of the pieces are rounded. That seems like an extravagance. XD

Dominique LorreThis looks acceptable for Shogi, however I think Xiangqi might cause more problems because it has a river between the two sides.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shogi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shogi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamedev</a>

Dominique LorreCaïssa Board is now broken again! I'm adding support for Shogi, Xiangqi and Capablanca chess, and since those are different board sizes than 8x8 everything will break, from the display to the database....I believe this is the last breaking change I have to make before finalizing the app.<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shogi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#shogi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gamedev</a>

Hackerspace KrakówContinuing with Oriental accents, this time it's the Chinese game <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a>, also known as Chinese chess. Here, it's presented in a 50% European style (because of the pieces), 50% Chinese (because of the kanji), and 50% post-modernist (because the board inscriptions are shitpost-inspired).<a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/lasercutting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lasercutting</a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/lasercut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lasercut</a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/laser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#laser</a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/woodwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#woodwork</a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/woodworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#woodworking</a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/diy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#diy</a> <a href="https://social.hackerspace.pl/tags/hackerspace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackerspace</a>

Werner Keil<a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Chinesisches" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinesisches</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Schach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Schach</a>: <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a> Champion verliert Titel – Verdacht auf <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Betrug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Betrug</a> mit <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Analkugeln" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Analkugeln</a>. Der Titel ist also im <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Arsch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Arsch</a>.😂🤣 <a href="https://www.spiegel.de/sport/china-xiangqi-champion-verliert-titel-verdacht-auf-betrug-mit-analkugeln-a-028d3bb0-4810-48b2-b203-b88e74ef1d26?sara_ref=re-so-tw-sh" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.spiegel.de/sport/china-xiangqi-champion-verliert-titel-verdacht-auf-betrug-mit-analkugeln-a-028d3bb0-4810-48b2-b203-b88e74ef1d26?sara_ref=re-so-tw-sh</a> via @derspiegel

Poetry NewsOh Yan Chenglong, you great Xiangqi champion You were destined to be a star But now your reign has come to an end For defecating in the bathtub, you are barredYour actions have caused great consternation Your title has been stripped away You may not be the champion you once were But in spirit, you'll always stay!<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/chinesechess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinesechess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/champion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#champion</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ode</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67822137" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67822137</a>

Matt Potter“Cheating using a communication device analogous to anal beads” is not a phrase I’d expected to see today.Yet here, in this age of wonders, we are. <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67822137" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67822137</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chess</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/innovation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#innovation</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hackers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hackers</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/lifehack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#lifehack</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/china" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#china</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/brandnewsentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#brandnewsentence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/newsentence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#newsentence</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hacker" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacker</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/hacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#hacking</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/cybercrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cybercrime</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/scandal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#scandal</a>

Peter Drake HAS MOVEDIt's X fortnight in our <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/BoardGamesAToZ" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoardGamesAToZ</a> challenge. We have exactly one game that starts with X:<a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/82222/xia-legends-drift-system" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/82222/xia-legends-drift-system</a>It requires more than two players, though, so we'll have to wait until game night to play it.Game night is scheduled for the very last day of the fortnight. Letting everything ride on that is just asking for us to come down with hemorrhagic gastroenteritis or Dutch elm disease or something, so we played a prophylactic game of Xiangqi on boardgamearena just to be safe.<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/BoardGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BoardGames</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/xia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xia</a>

AgotogoWhy can one find "<a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/vikingchess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vikingchess</a>" sets at book stores, but a game that has twice the amount of players as international <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/chess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chess</a> is something you'd have to buy online or seriously search for in person. I'm <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/autistic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#autistic</a> and always seem to find niches that aren't actual niches, but are? My fixation is <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/xiangqi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#xiangqi</a> <a href="https://universeodon.com/tags/chinesechess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chinesechess</a> It is difficult having more than one thing I like simultaneously

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦One of the nicer portable <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Chinese?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chinese</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Chess?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Chess</a> (<a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Xiangqi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a>) sets that I've found. Too often portable sets are made cheaply of cheap materials. This is lovely: the bamboo tube is nicely crafted and sturdy, and the playing pieces are electroplated brass: very substantial. The board is fake suede, but I'm going to hunt around for a proper suede board to replace it.

🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦I know someone who has an even more intense interest in historical Chinese board games than I do. He researches them and publishes recreations which range from mostly-guesswork to intensely accurate. This is one such game, a variant of Xiangqi that was quite popular many years ago (more popular than even the version that dominates today!) but which fell into disfavour over the centuries. It has the unusual property of playing from corner to corner instead of from edge to edge, giving it a very different strategic feel. <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/AncientChess?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AncientChess</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ChineseChess?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ChineseChess</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Xiangqi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Xiangqi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WoJiaoQi?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WoJiaoQi</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/HistoricalGaming?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HistoricalGaming</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/History?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#History</a>

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