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now THIS is what a good chess set should be like
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    Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 02:14

 

  Qin VS ?

    Everything's nice except the cannons...
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That is nice.  The other dudes look like some nomadic type of people...but what is up with those cannons?
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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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poirot is right. the han costumes were almost the same as qin. 
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That looks like Xianggi(?).  Except that elephants look like humans.
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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Originally posted by demon

That looks like Xianggi(?).  Except that elephants look like humans.

the elephants are actually ministers.

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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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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Thats awsome!!
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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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how much was it, where did you get it?
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