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After retirement, Li published a number of books in English on the culture of China, including translations of the Analects of Confucius, The Art of War, and Tao Te Ching, as well as several books on xiangqi or Chinese chess. He died after a brief illness, on July 12, 2018 in Silver Spring, Maryland, at the age of 89. [1] [2]
Xiangqi (/ ˈ ʃ ɑː ŋ tʃ i /; Chinese: 象棋; pinyin: xiàngqí), commonly known as Chinese chess or elephant chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is the most popular board game in China.
The Game of Chinese Chess, engraving. The Game of Chinese Chess or The Game of Chinese Checkers (French: Le jeu d'échets chinois) is a drawing by the French artist François Boucher, showing an orientalised image of two people playing Xiangqi. Although actual Xiangqi pieces are all round, the shapes of the pieces in the drawing are more varied.
While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess, xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese), makruk (Thai), ouk chatrang (Cambodian) and modern Indian chess.
The former World chess champion Ding Liren and Women's World chess champion Ju Wenjun is also from China. Chess has only gained popularity in China in the last few decades, and while chess has grown exponentially in China, it still trails Chinese chess (xiangqi) and go (weiqi) by a small margin.
The Encyclopedia of Chinese Chess Openings (Chinese: 中国象棋开局编号) is a book that lists all the possible opening moves of Chinese chess (Xiangqi), including rarely used openings. The editor of Encyclopedia of Chess Network included the first game of the 8197 Board as the basis, to draw up the ECCO code.
Zhang Pengxiang (simplified Chinese: 张鹏翔; traditional Chinese: 張鵬翔; pinyin: Zhāng Péngxiáng; born 29 June 1980 in Tianjin) [1] is a chess grandmaster of Chinese ethnicity, and the 2007 Asian Chess Champion. [2] In 2001, he became China's 12th Grandmaster. Zhang's peak rating was 2657 in April 2007 when he was ranked 47th in the ...
Lingqijing (or Ling Ch'i Ching; 靈棋經 lit."Classic of the Divine Chess") is a Chinese book of divination.It is not known when, nor by whom, it was written, though a legend has spread that strategist Zhang Liang received the book from Huang Shigong (黃石公), a semi-mythological figure in Chinese history.