On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:42:53AM -0200, Mark Boon wrote:
> It's difficult to get hard data about this. Go is only the most popular
> game in Korea. In other countries like Japan and China it comes second by
> far to a local chess variation.
Couting xiangqi and shogi players as chess players is a bit unfair...
They are called chinese chess and japan chess only in the occidental
word due to strange looking names that we always forgot and a few
similarity.
These two games are very different from occidental chess. Ok, the board
is similar (9x9 instead of 8x8), you have to capture a king or similar,
and some pieces are similar. But the games themselves are very
different.
Especialy shogi with the hability two return captured pieces on the
board need very different strategy and playing style.
For me, if you count xiangqi and shogi players with chess players you
have to include a lot of others similar games. Why not including chekers
or amazones ;-)
Tom
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