Intro to Chinese Chess

I'm not good at Chinese Chess, but not seeing any lectures on it in English, I decided to put a few up. Here's lecture 1. Copyright hessonchess 2010.

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Sports

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• chinese
• chess
• intro
• lesson
• software

[tatomuck18]

whats the difference between chinese chess and regular chess? Is there any pawn promotion in chinese chess?

[HessOnChess]

@tatomuck18 No pawn promotion.

[uni8boy]

do you have tactics of playing rather than how to play? tell me please thx.

[HessOnChess]

I don't. I'm not very good at Chinese Chess. You can search on line and find some very detailed information on some websites.

[trenchnurse]

This was very helpful. Thanks for making it. I play this all the time now.

[HessOnChess]

Thanks. You play the computer using this software, another program or online?

[raistlic]

it is totally different.We call this game "Chinese Chess" because it is similar with chess, and you beat your opponent by taking his King. While Go is a game about occupying place.

[AsianHideOut]

chinese chess is so hard :S

[lordzilu1584]

@ihateuutube

No, Chinese chess has different origin..

Chinese chess was designed after a civil war which happened 2000 years ago, so that's why in chinese chess there is a river

[raghunitin]

so, how do we win in this game? and can two pieces remain at the same point?

[TourDeMagie123]

so the name of it is just chinese chess?

[ihateuutube]

Western Chess is actually Indian Chess.

Chinese Chess was likely derived from Indian Chess, which is why there are many similarities.

[TheFoulGoblin]

你的错

[cvbngg123]

無聊

[jigmesam]

I don't speak Chinese, and it only takes a couple of games to get some grasp on the pieces. It's better to memorise the pieces in Chinese so you can play anywhere!