Ancient Chinese Chess Texts Reorganized – Jiaozhu Zhai: Jiaozhu Zhai

Author: Li Ji
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: This book is a famous ancient chess manual compiled in the Qing Dynasty, renowned for its exquisite endgame strategies. It has been regarded as a "treasure" by generations of chess players and has served as an invaluable guide and companion for learning chess. To date, it remains a must-read for the chess community seeking to improve their skills. To facilitate modern readers' study and comprehension, this book incorporates the research and annotations of past chess scholars into the main text, records the contents using contemporary notation, and provides marginal comments at ingenious points or critical junctures in the play. This not only makes the original text clearer and more accessible but also enables general chess enthusiasts to follow the author's insights, appreciate the depth and subtlety of the ancient strategies, and quickly enhance their own skills.