25 August 2005

象棋

In my ongoing attempts to understand my role in Brasil's opaque social script, I've decided to start learning Xiangqi, or Chinese Chess. Initial observations include

  • There is a whole lot more space than in International Chess
  • It is crazy hard to figure out which pieces are which (all pieces are identified by characters, each team having slightly different ones)
  • I cannot defeat the java program on "too easy" (i.e., the difficulty settings are relative and they are not scaled according to my abilities)
You can play here. If you find a free download, link in the comments section. If you read this and you are not my Mom, Alex Rixey, or Matt Olsen, add a comment so I can get an idea of my readership.

2 comments:

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