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#programming #objectOriented #commonLisp #engineering #ChineseChess https://screwlisp.small-web.org/common-lisp-interface-manager/chinese-chess-part-i-just-a-board/

This is extracted from my rejected experience report for #ELS2025 about a GUI chess app for a library club. I gradually build up from this part I mixins that result in substantively differently behaviours depending on where and what they get mixed into.

#emacs #eev of course.

I am still alive!

An emacs split screen showing the markdown document article on the left, and the bits of it evaluating live in eepitch-sbcl buffer on the right. There's a list that looks plausibly like Chinese chess board.

"We do not stop playing because we grow old, we grow old because we stop playing!" - Benjamin Franklin

A random find on a random walk through Beijing... .

#chinesechess #beijing #courtyard #silkroad #overland #streetphotography #photography #travel #china #travelphotography #solotravel #solofemaletravel #throwback

Your Move by David's_silvershots

https://tmblr.co/Z7VXvxgzXDx98i00

#usa #boston #canon #chinatown #massachusetts #newengland #chinesechess #massachusettes #compactcamera #22mm #eosm #35mmfov #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

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.

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#象棋 #Xiangqi #ChineseChess #ChessProblems

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A screen shot of a Xiangqi board setup. From this position, red to move, red wins in two moves.

A screen shot of a Xiangqi board setup with arrows showing the moves using arrows in the order of red, yellow, green.

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.

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#象棋 #Xiangqi #ChineseChess #ChessProblems

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A screen shot of a Xiangqi board editor with the initial setup for a problem.

The same screen shot with a red, yellow, and green arrow followed in sequence to solve the problem.

象棋｜亞洲象棋個人錦標賽黃學謙摘銀創港隊史上最佳

「弈秋杯」第20屆亞洲象棋個人錦標賽早前於新加坡舉行，港隊派出三位運動員黃學謙、鄭彥隆、林嘉欣競逐男女子項目，並有黃學謙成功殺入決賽，最終雖於決賽加賽快棋不敵中國15歲棋手劉柏宏摘銀，仍為港隊創下亞錦個人賽史上最佳成績。

#中國象棋 #ChineseChess #亞洲象棋個人錦標賽 #黃學謙
 #象棋 #比賽 #運動 #新加坡
 https://www.instagram.com/p/DDY0k-cpwYI/

Oh 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 barred

Your 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!

#chess #xiangqi #chinesechess #champion #ode #poetry

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-67822137

So many questions surrounding this story
- what on earth is Chinese chess?
- who the heck celebrates by shitting in a bathtub?
- how can you convey complex information by clenching and unclenching your arse on anal beads?

Chinese chess champion stripped of title after defecating in hotel bathtub:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/27/chinese-chess-champion-stripped-of-title-after-defecating-in-hotel-bathtub?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#News #Newstodon #NewsTooter #ChineseChess

Why can one find "#vikingchess" sets at book stores, but a game that has twice the amount of players as international #chess is something you'd have to buy online or seriously search for in person. I'm #autistic and always seem to find niches that aren't actual niches, but are? My fixation is #xiangqi #chinesechess
It is difficult having more than one thing I like simultaneously

World Chess Championship 2023: Nepomniachtchi and Liren Draw in Round 3
Read more at https://www.mindvoice.live/world-chess-championship-2023-nepomniachtchi-and-liren-draw-in-round-3/

#WCC2023 #Nepomniachtchi #Liren #ChessMatch #ChessDraw #ChessNews #ChessCommunity #MindSports #StrategyGames #BoardGames #RussianChess #ChineseChess #ChessTournament #Grandmasters #Game3

#mindvoice #mindvoicenews #currentaffairs #currentnews #latestnews #mastodonsocial
#WorldChessChampionship

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. #AncientChess #ChineseChess #Xiangqi #WoJiaoQi #HistoricalGaming #History

The box for the game is a very traditional Chinese box style: covered in "gold" (yellow) brocade with a single framed paper sticker containing the title of the game vertically on the left.

The components inside are very much the product of small-press self-publication: a thick glossy stock paper board with small round pieces with the characters for the pieces on one side. Half are black, half are white.

The board will look familiar-ish to any player of Xiangqi, only the "camp"/"palace" squares are on opposing corners instead of the middle of opposing sides. Some marked starting points are slightly shifted compared to the more modern game.

The rules are just printed on laser printer on plain A4 stock.

* inspired by #ChineseChess, or #XiangQi

#chinesechess

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