computeropponen: I had a plan there (knowing who I was playing against and what kind of mistakes my opponent is prone to make) and it worked…

the basic of the chinese chess game not every one understand, even a 18xx player still make this kind of error.
a player with 30 or 40 yrs experience does not mean a good player, he may just repeat the same mistake for 30 or 40 years.

here is a game Pedro Martincz red 1839 vs chessik black 1689

1) Che3 Ng8
2) Ng3 Pg6
3) Rh1 Rh10
4) Cec3

only the first 3 moves are without mistake, the 4th move is a error , red lost a step here......

computeropponen: Thank you so much for sharing this stunning piece of information with us…

As I said before on my post dated 9 March 2011, I have no friend and enemy here, especially with the discussion board moderator or webmaster.
I don't want to have any relationship with them who oversee the discusssion board and the site, and they has the power to ban me from playing and talking abt chinese chess game.

I have my true story to tell, it happened when I was on the other online site, I became a friend of someone, one day who sent me a private message like that " I tell you a secrete, but don't tell anybody I have another nick" " what is that?" I replied " it is axxx" I was stunned, the axxx was the one who always sent me the message with foul language..I did not know how to react, after awhile, I responded " thank you for telling me that "
since then I stopped talking with that guy....

another true story about playing a game against a weak opponent, during the game he sent me a message like that " my grand ma is not happy" I was very surprised " why u telling me abt that?" I asked "she lost the game every time " he said " I have nothing to do with that, what can I do" " you beat her all the time, she play for me"....'' I know what to do" was my final word..and I lost the game...

Playing online you don't know with whom you are playing the game or talking to, every one just a nick, a friend could be an enemy....they are not real thing...some times i feel like playing a game with a ghost...it disappeared during the game suddenly...

I have an idea how to set up a "Two knights handicap" game online.
This kind of game is played between two players, one is stronger than the other, the stronger player play without two knights to make the game competitive..

For this to be possible, you and your opponent have to make the following moves:
the stonger player as Black and the other as Red who move first...
1) Cxb1 Cc8
2) Cb3 Cb8
3) Cxh10 Cg8
4) Ch5 Ch8
5) Ch3 .......
Now is the Black's move and the so called "two knights handicaps" game is set up

There is the "Iron center pawn" rule, it provide some protection for the center pawn because of lack of protection from missing two knights.

the center pawn only can be captured with a direct check, for example, Cxe7+ or Rxe7+

It is a idea to train the weak player how to defend with material advantages...especially for the beginner....

computeropponen: It is simply a tip if you and your opponent are online and want to play part or all of your game as quickly as possible. That's all.

Tips of the day no. 21 by TeamBundy
Play a game in real time with an online opponent !
For this to be possible you and your opponent have to select the action "Move and stay here" as default and then reload the page with the F5 key.

I don't know what he is talking about " real time" !

this is only the idea of how to play online with both players are not alllowed to logout during the game....

it is a good idea ...so many people all the time log in and log out during the game...but your opponent has to agree to do the same thing...it is hard for them because they got used to do such thing " login and logout "....

computeropponen: Keep to the subject of Chinese Chess on this board. Thank you!

rod03801: you like to stir things up...we have an argument about my post on the stairs discussion board....over there.you were trying to say that I am insulting all the people at turnbased sites....I know what is in your mind if you can find a reason you would ban me from playing here.
you are a very sensitive guy

FromHell: once more , I think you are a humble man
now you are the no.1 player on the established BRK list
If you consider yourself a layman, actually you are insulting all the others rated below you.
my advise is that don't be so humble

FromHell: it is my language problem, sorry I made you feel that way
what I have in mind is those guys i don't want to talk to...

FromHell: don't get me wrong i don't consider you are a layman at all...you defeated me in one game...what i wanted is to talk to a good player like you.
the subject is already on the discussion board why i have to send you a private message
i don't have anything in private to talk to you.

computeropponen: I will have a closer look at your posted game in the next few days. Thank you for it. I am very busy at the moment and still have not that much time. From time to time I log in and just watching if there is something new going on. It is very complex and I'm not that experienced at all to have a deep understanding of this game.

I have to agree to rod03801. They should not be insulated. I just feel like a layman and not like an expert of chinese chess. So I'm one of them...

If you want to talk only to me, it's the best doing this with a private message. Thank you very much.

computeropponen: Regardless, laymen or beginners, are NOT to be insulted here. Thank you.

rod03801:
who is the beginner or layman here? I am just talking something in general term, that is an old saying in chinese chess
I did not insult anyone only if he himself admitted he is a beginner or layman.

computeropponen: Then you should have your conversation in private message perhaps, if you only intend to talk to him, rather than insult anyone else.

Talking to a beginner or layman is like
"playing piano in front of a cow"
it is an old say in chinese chess

Here is a game played by two chinese grandmasters in 1982, Hu Rong Hua played as Black against another chinese GM.

Mr.Hu was a 10x chinese chess champion, and he is considered as the Bobby Fisher in chinese chess. He commented on his own game...

THe following are the moves;
1) Cbe3 Cbe8
2) Nc3 Nc8
3) Ra2 Rb10
4) Rf2 Rb6
5) Ng3 Ng8
6) Ri2 Ei8
at this point Hu commented.
Red Ri2 and reserved the move Rf7 it was flexible. Black Ei8 also had its deep idea. if Pg6 then Red Rf7. now if Red still made that move Rf7, Black responded with Ch6 and black would have advantages......

At first I did not understand what was Mr.Hu talking about..later I spent sometimes to look into the game to figure it out.

I am not a grandmaster as good as Hu. what he was talking I could not understand right away , because I am not stand at the same ground and not in his class.. can you figure it out?

This post is not respond to any one.
I don't talk to any one who has no desire to improve himself and I don't play any one rated 1859 / No.9 or below that.. this is my principle now
I did send an invitation to a player rated 1859 before when I was unrated but he considered himself too strong for an unknown player like me and refused to play me...

who says unrated player don't play and not interest in discussion of the game??

My last post about why silence of this discussion board,my intention is to talk to FromHell only
you have to talk to someone at the same ground with the same knowledge & playing skill of chinese chess
and understand each other what is talking about....

Here is a game played by two chinese grandmaster in 1982, HU Rong Hua PLAY black against another GM , MR

computeropponen:

Your figures support what FromHell said. Inactive means are no longer playing, possibly have not even logged onto the site for years. Why would an unrated player be interested in discussing a game he don’t play?

Look at the chess board more closely, there is very little general chat. There was a big debate a while back over a technical point on ice age chess but other than that very little general chat.

As currently number 14 on the established grades in Chinese Chess I have no illusions that my standard of play is poor (and before you ask I have no desire to improve) and I would suggest there are no more than 5-6 strong chinese chess players on the site. I currently have either established or provisional rankings in 37 games on the site, do you expect me to engage in discussions on all of them? If not why should I treat Chinese Chess differently?

If an interesting point came up, an interpretation of the rules for example, I would be interested but posts about how your games are getting on are of little interest to anyone but yourself.

If you seriously want a discussion about Chinese Chess I would suggest this is the wrong site, you need to find one that specialises in the game.

FromHell:
Why just a few people talk at this discussion board ?
According to your estimate there are only 64 chinese chess players on the established list and only abt 20 would like to talk abt anything on this board....

here are the actual numbers of players on the lists at the monent......
for chinese chess
Established BKR 61 active players
Provisional BKR 104 active players
Established 213 Inactive
Provisional 642 inactive
how many unrated players ?

Beren the 32nd has post on this board , he
is NO.139 on the Pro inactive list
he also is no.126 on the chess list

what i meant is that every one has chance to talk at this board including those unrated players.


For Chess
Established 695 active players
Provisional 847 active players
Established 2676 inactive
Provisional 6507 inactive
unrated players ?

I also found the chess discussion board people just chat to each other with no specific subject abt chess

the reason for the "Silence" at this board, I think it is because people are not willing to talk and they have nothing abt chinese chess in mind to talk abt.
it depends on how much they know abt the game....

it is only my opinion.....

computeropponen:
no more chinese chess
losing interest
time to say good bye

Bye.

computeropponen: Sorry to hear this. But on this site we basically play correspondence chess, not OTB. So it is perfectly normally to set up the position on your board at home and play through a few ideas before you decide on a move. It is also normal to look at the board and decide you have no idea how to proceed, so wait and see if you feel more inspired the next day. At least for me anyway!

My interest to play here is decreaseing
After finishing these last 3 games...no more


during the game people just log in and log out many times...so often .
it is like when you are making love your partner wanted to stop
there are so many interruptions ..your sex desire is gone..

I do not play with computer help
I repeat

alms: you have asked me a question " Do you play with computer help? " same as you asked me if I am a cheater. My answer is " no, I am not a cheater"

The French Chess Federation suspends players accused of cheating, they found the evidents that the players were using outside help during the game. They called this is guilty of violation of sporting ethics .

Is computer help considered cheating? on any online game site or online turnbased site, because you don't know what your opponent is doing, it may not be a cheating at all. so many things people are doing here are not allowed in the real chess or chinese chess world. such as using computer program, looking at text book for reference, putting pieses on the board to find the moves by trail & error, move back, touch the piese and not move it etc......

I believe we are all doing it...are we all cheater?

alms 1310 invited me for a chinese chess game that I refused...the reason is I don't want to beat up a very weak opponent
I have sent Invitations to 4 guys (tenuki 2186, Kleineme 2121, mirari 2030 and jimbone 2110)
they all declined, what is the reasons I don't know.

alms: no. I hate the cheater... that is why my user ID is computeropponent ...but who knows who is using the computer to play here....

A computer user won't use such as my user name ...a cheater always hide its wrongdoing....

sorry I don't want to play you ...thanks for your invitation...you should challenge some one just not much stronger than you

computeropponen: You should change your description...

Do you play with computer help?

all the games were finished vs the top 3 players on rating list

the results are: I won against svyel in a unrated game and Kumagai in 3 rated games but I lost to FromHell....now my rating did not change it is still 2442 I think FromHell should be rated higher than svyel ...right now they are both rated the same with 2236 pts.

actually I don't care abt the BRK rating at all

I just refused to play a player with 1300+
sorry about that.

What is OTB game ? it is Live or Real game, two players are facing each other playing the game over the board....It is complete different ways of playing the game from a turnbased game,.

1) players are face to face
2) no computer aid reference text book to look at
3) touch & move
4) no trail & error
5) time controls....1 to 5 minutes per move, the game finished in hours....not days. months or even years..
6) sportsmanship---shake hands

When my opponent is online and I saw this message..playing game Chines Chess ( ??? vs computeropponen)
I would like to sit in front of the monitor watching the game to get a little feeling of playing the OTB game.

the time controls is very important for OTB game, so many games are decided by blunder or can not find the correct answer under the time pressure...

Time pressure ! hah hah

computeropponen:
Well, but let's have a look at the number of users at the chinese chess rating list. There are only 64 players at the established rating list at the moment. (That is only about 10% of the number of chess or backgammon players.) And how many of this small amount of users do really read the discussion board? I would guess only 1/3 does. So there are only about 20 users on this board who reads this. And not everyone wants to write something here or has something to say to share with other people about chinese chess or about your posts about chinese chess. That could be one reason for the "silence" at this board.

Beren the 32nd:
your first post : " Any particular reason why you are using this discussion board to talk so much about yourself......." Sorry I copy your post, words here but this is a discussion board....
as I said before, I like to talk about chinese chess but most people just wantd to keep quiet
Almost a post a day, it gave you such a impression that I am just talking abt myself, actually every thing I have talked about is chinese chess related.....

This is an unrated game only last 14 moves and svyel resigned when he was losing a cannon.

I would like to share my view for the last two crucial moves

on move 12 Rc6....if 12.Rxa6 Nc7 Black is better, gave up a rook for atttacking...
12. .... Ege8 ..very bad move, after the forced exchange of rook, Black end up to lose a cannon...
Better was Nc7, 13 Rxc7 Rxd6 14. Rxc8 ...in this case, Black lost a cannon but kept the another cannon at e4 and the red knight was pinned at e2....

computeropponen: This is off topic for the board. The former moderator had to be removed as they were no longer a paying member, so someone had to take over, and being Brainking staff, it was me who did in this case. A paying Brainking member is certainly welcome to volunteer for the responsibility.

I'm not sure though why the moderator of the board affects you at all?

But please. Stay on topic. If you have moderating issues, the proper step is to take it to the moderator of the board in a personal message. Keep this board to the discussion of Chinese Chess. Thank you.

It is a surprise that the Moderator of chinese chess discussion board who did not play a single chinese chess game
how much he knows about that game ?

computeropponen: Thanks. Maybe this game against mangue, because he seems to be a better player than me: Chinese Chess (Beren the 32nd vs. mangue)

Beren the 32nd:
I will do that.... but which one game you considered it is your best game ?

kleineme:
I have reviwed your game against richardjin5555

your subject is the game rule about Perpetual chase. you are right about it

since this is a discussion board, I think you don't mind I comment on your game...
I would like to point out something in this game that you won

move 9....cb5 is bad move you made without punishment
move 11 is your opponent's turn to make mistake, richardjin5555 should have made the move Ei3 attacking your cannon instead of pxc7..if he did that the table will turn around and he may be the winner

computeropponen: Any particular reason why you are using this discussion board to talk so much about yourself, and not the game and rules of Xiangqi? How about finding one of my old games and reviewing it for me? I am not that good, but willing to learn - just a suggestion.

N0.1. Svyel 2236
N0.2. FromHell 2236
N0.3. Kumagai 2137

All the games have not yet finished.

It looks like Svyel is going to lose one cannon
FromHell may be in a better position
Kumagai lost a rook for my knight in one game and lost a knght in the other game. It looks he is going to lose both games again.

every thing is possible
who is the winner only when the games finished can tell.

FromHell said something in a post :
You are unrated and your strength is unknown. I don't know you and I don't know your name........
everyone can change its user name @ this site
I believe no one will use his real name to play here and any other online site.

I think what he meant is the famous name like Xu Yinchuan

I am just a nobody
that's it





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I like to talk about chinese chess but most people just wanted to keep quiet
I like to play c chess w/ every one but some one just avoid to play the game with me..or he who over estimated himself and selfclaimed that he is better than me even he does not know me and the game.

I have played total 8 games so far including the top 3 players...N0. 3 Kumagai already resigned,
I have 3 wins no lost and no draw.

every thing is possible
just think positive, not negative
you will get it done

Pedro Martínez:
Thank you for telling me the Discussion Board guideline NO.6
From now on I won't invite you to play any chinese chess game.
I just challenge those guys rated above you

I also add you to my blocked user.

computeropponen:

“No “Copy'n'Pasting” other user's posts, words or Personal Messages (PM’s) onto any Public Discussion Boards without their permission. Failure to adhere to this may result in you being banned from the Discussion Board, or possibly, banned from posting on all Public Discussion Boards.”
http://brainking.com/en/UserAgreement

it is a sure win for me
Kumagai should resign with no further play

FromHell:
The game I play vs Kumagai , the no.3 player with 2137 pts on the rating list, has not finished yet

It looks like I am going to win that game

yes, you are right ..... every thing is possible

FromHell:
I am not Xu Yinchuan, the grandmaster of China, he won't play here for sure.
I am not a beginner
the message from Pedro Martinez rated no.9 with 1859 pts like that " sent me an invite after you get better" this guy is not playing a chinese chess game

It looks you are the one willing to talk with open mind
anyway I thank you for playing with me.....................

computeropponen:
Like you said it: You are unrated and your strength is unknown. I don't know you and I don't know your name. Hypothetical you can be a beginner at this game (I don't think so) but you can also be Xu Yinchuan. So everything is possible.

no.1 Svyel 2236
no.2 FromHell 2236
no.3 Kurnagai 2137

I am unrated
I stand a chance to win?