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babyblue
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Topic: now THIS is what a good chess set should be like Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 02:14 |
Qin VS ?
Everything's nice except the cannons...
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Gubook Janggoon
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Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 02:34 |
That is nice. The other dudes look like some nomadic type of people...but what is up with those cannons?
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poirot
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Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 02:38 |
Chu vs. Han. The ones with helmets are Chu, and the ones that resemble Qin are Han. The classical setup is always Chu vs. Han.
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sinosword
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Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 10:20 |
poirot is right. the han costumes were almost the same as qin.
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demon
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Posted: 15-Feb-2006 at 00:25 |
That looks like Xianggi(?). Except that elephants look like humans.
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Grrr..
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Posted: 15-Feb-2006 at 02:32 |
Originally posted by demon
That looks like Xianggi(?). Except that elephants look like humans. |
yes, this is xiangqi.
regarding the elephants you mentioned, it's wrong. it's the minister in the xiangqi
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Sino Defender
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Posted: 15-Feb-2006 at 21:16 |
Originally posted by demon
That looks like Xianggi(?). Except that elephants look like humans. |
the elephants are actually ministers.
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Posted: 10-Jun-2006 at 16:10 |
Where do you buy this, because it will be pretty cool to have this set
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mico5bei
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Posted: 12-Jun-2006 at 20:56 |
Thats awsome!!
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Liang Jieming
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Posted: 13-Jun-2006 at 07:15 |
They should have gone for catapults on one side, and cannons on the other for accuracy since the traditional set used two different variants of the word pao, one with the stone radical, the other with the fire radical.
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mico5bei
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Posted: 14-Jun-2006 at 10:42 |
how much was it, where did you get it?
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