"Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com> schrieb:
It is being argued that xiangqi (Chinese chess) is
appropriately labelled
'chess variant', when it predates chess and can't be a variant of it. So
it's like saying soccer is a 'gridiron variant'.
Chinese chess is a form of chess, and thus cannot predate it. In my opinion, it is a
'chess variant' - and western chess is a 'chess variant' as well.
'Chess' is, in the English language, simply the word for both western chess and
the family of chess games as a whole.
Andre Engels