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fragmentedblade · 1 year

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I was reading yesterday about xiangqi and there was a mention about how the general is rather useless and even affects negatively your game at first, but ends up having a key role in setting up winning strategies towards the final stages, and it reminded me so much of Jing Yuan's role in the Xianzhou arc

#The more I read about xiangqi the more I see Jing Yuan in it #I thought the coincidences would be very superficial and sparse but I actually think these things were done on purpose #Really the attention to detail of this game baffles me. I wasn't expecting it at all #The more I see of Jingliu the more I recall the book on traditional chinese fencing I read too #It seemed they drew inspiration from those things for real as well #Unfortunately finding trustworthy information on traditional chinese fencing is being way harder than on chinese chess #I have to save those lines here still #I never do anything in the end #Nor the recopilation about scattered information on Yingxing‚ nor the lines on fencing‚#and I haven't made the gifs either of Jing Yuan stealing the xiangqi piece #nor of Blade and Jingliu's confrontation showcasing how Blade's expression contrasts Yingxing's #I hate that I am so lazy I keep postponing this. I really want to save those things. Otherwise eventually I'll forget them #*sighs*#Anyway... I ended up rambling again. I just wanted to save this thought here #I should have a tag for that maybe. In the meanwhile idk #I talk too much #Traces #I should probably delete this later #Oh! Reading the book on xiangqi strategy proved to be useful!#I'm only in the very beginning but I won my first game last night!#Having a deeper explanation on the functionality of the different pieces beyond how they move was very useful #I'm stuck now because the book suggested getting a physical board to move the pieces while reading and I don't have one #I was keeping a mental image of what was being described but I do get lost at times #when I have to trace back and forward what's being described‚ especially when the writer is comparing moves #But everything I find online is quite expensive and very bad quality. I don't know where to get a cheap yet decent (for the price) set

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