2009-04-24, 05:20 | Link #1061 |
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Land of the rising sun
|
Shogi is a much more difficult board game then chess since you are able to recycle the opponent pieces that you have taken.
I hear that a super computer still can not out wit a pro in shogi because it has more possibe moves to consider then chess. |
2009-04-24, 10:35 | Link #1062 |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
True, chess is "just about completely solved" but shogi's unique side-switching captured-piece drop rule ( mercenary paratroopers for the win) that was added in the 16th C. (?) makes it a far more computationally difficult problem. I'm still in the "learning good openings" stage but find the game fascinating and refreshing - the old regular chess games may move to the back of the closet.
Chinese chess is also interesting but one chess-sister at a time...
__________________
|
2009-04-27, 12:53 | Link #1067 | |
勇者
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Tesla Leicht Institute
Age: 34
|
Quote:
I didn't realize that Shogi, Xiangqi, and Janggi were different games, always thought they were the same game but with different name.
__________________
|
|
2009-04-28, 17:06 | Link #1071 | |
Obey the Darkly Cute ...
Author
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: On the whole, I'd rather be in Kyoto ...
Age: 66
|
Quote:
Interesting way to waste floorspace though...
__________________
|
|
2009-04-29, 03:30 | Link #1073 |
Banned
Join Date: Apr 2009
|
Japanese Culture
Painting has been an art in Japan for a very long time: the brush is a traditional writing tool, and the extension of that to its use as an artist's tool was probably natural. Native Japanese painting techniques are still in use today, as well as techniques adopted from continental Asia and from the West.
|
2009-04-29, 21:25 | Link #1076 |
Otaku Apprentice
|
Girls dressed as maids carry a “mikoshi,” or portable shrine, during an event to promote the Akihabara district on Sunday. The mikoshi was decorated with objects representative of the district, such as manga, or comic books, laptop computers, toy robot models and video games. Listed are (on the almost completed Akiba Mikoshi): CPU A Monitor & D-VHS iPoD and other medias Manga "NHK ni Yokoso" & Genshiken Eng version Cellphone Manga Magazine & Radio-controlled Model Car A Case for PC Laptop & A Hero Doll Niku no Mansei & A Soldering Iron Game, Comp, etc (with Tsuruya-san and Mikuru) Family Computer (Famicom) PSP Lucky☆Star Transistor Teaset Other stuff I saw: Maid uniform A robot on top Akiba Map Something that looked like solar panels
__________________
Last edited by bhl88; 2009-04-29 at 21:39. |
2009-04-30, 00:57 | Link #1077 | |
v イイエイイエイイエ!!!v
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: C Natural, B Natural
Age: 29
|
Quote:
Too bad I wasnt able to watch the actual parade...was too busy being an otaku and playing games |
|
2009-05-01, 08:35 | Link #1080 |
Observer/Bookman wannabe
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Singapore
Age: 38
|
Well, according to Rhoads Murphey in his "A History of Asia", Buddhism came to Japan via Korea. I guess it's more of a historical legacy than real cultural ones. The ties between Korea and Japan were at their strongest before 1000 C.E. In fact, many Chinese customs reached Japan through Korea, I believe.
__________________
|
Tags |
culture, discussion, japan, japanese culture |
Thread Tools | |
|
|