Xiang Qi

This is my third 6 month trip to Taiwan, I had great plans to play a lot of Chinese Chess(Xiang Qi) this time, but the time seems to have just slipped away. But I did get some photos.

At the QiMing Taipei City Library for the Visually Impaired they had this XiangQi set for the blind.

There are similar Western Chessboards for the blind, with the pieces fitted with pegs that fit into holes in the board. But the Western board is 8 by 8 where as the Chinese Chess board is 10 by 9. 64 .vs. 90 positions.

Like in the West, the imagery of chess is used in advertising to convene some intelligent behavior. I would say most young people in both the West and the East don't know how to play chess, so does that mean they are not intelligent?

Actually, XiangQi is not as popular as AnQi a game played with the XiangQi chessmen and half the XiangQi board and describe on my webpage.

https://sites.google.com/site/essmike/

Here are figurines playing Xiangqi

This motif sculpture has a long history, in the National History Museum there is a bronze piece of players of the Chinese game liubo from 25-325 A.D. It was more of a dice game, with the throw of six sticks determining the moves.

Here's a set from the GuChiFong Museum in HsinChu.

Here we have some little girls playing on the BIG BOARD.