Bøger af Ping Loong Wong

Train your tactical ability and exercise your calculation skills by solving Xiangqi puzzles.XIANGQI Puzzles One Move Kill is a book where readers are prompted to find a checkmate or stalemate in one move. The book consists of 472 puzzles. Each puzzle is uniquely designed with positions that players are likely to encounter on the board. Answers to the puzzles are presented at the end of the book.Solving puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your Xiangqi's skill. For the beginners, simply learning the killing ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop their tactical skills.This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

Xiangqi or Chinese Chess, is becoming more popular in Western countries due to the rise of China. China's extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy are already attracted Westerners' interest. Westerners want to learn more about Chinese's culture. One of the easier approaches is by learning Xiangqi. Unfortunately, there is always not easy for a Westerner or non-Chinese speaking person to learn Xiangqi by his own. This book is designed for the person who is absolutely no knowledge or little knowledge in Xiangqi, and would like to learn it by his own. The structures of the book are well designed. There are divided into 5 main chapters, which are Xiangqi Fundamentals, Xiangqi Basic Kills, Xiangqi Basic Endgame, Xiangqi Basic Midgame and Xiangqi Opening. The sentences uses are simple and easy English. The reader can just easily follows the chapter and learns Xiangqi step by step. There are more than 300 diagrams have been placed such that it would be easy to cross reference the moves and the actual situation on the board. At the end of each chapter, it consists of self-test or puzzles to assess the reader's competency level. There are more than 130 puzzles and the answers are provided at the end of the book.At the end, the reader will be able to appreciate the Chinese culture through Xiangqi.

One of the most effective way to learn Xiangqi's opening is to study Grandmaster games. This will help to build your Xiangqi opening repertoire.Xiangqi openings are studied in great depth by Grandmasters. A new Xiangqi variation, previously unexplored variations are often discovered and played by Grandmasters.You have to do some home work. You will need to get a bunch of the games played by a very strong Xiangqi player who is an an expert in certain variation and analyze them move by move.For example, if you want to study Xiangqi's Elephant Opening, then get the games played by Grandmaster Hu RongHua who was the biggest expert there. After you have analyzed few hundreds of the games played by an expert you learn the basic ideas and also get the feel of the opening. It is an entertaining and very efficient way to master any opening.However, it is always not an easy task for a non-Chinese speaking players to get the Xiangqi Games notations played by Grandmaster. There are very limited Xiangqi resources in English language.This book "XIANGQI Grandmaster Hu RongHua and his Elephant Openings" has documented more than 200 games played as Red by GM Hu by using Elephant Opening. The games are collected from internet, whereas the author has translated them into English notations. These are the games were played by GM Hu in the main tournament within year 1960 to year 2013!. By studying the games, we could understand the development of Elephant Opening and its main variations.Study Grandmaster Xiangqi Moves to get better at XiangqiYou see what move the Grandmaster made, and move on to the next moveStudy Grandmaster Games and start memorizing their moves.You can be a better Xiangqi player!

Xiangqi Puzzles Five Moves KillAuthored by Ping Loong WongXIANGQI Puzzles Five Moves KillGive your brain a workout the fun wayTrain your tactical ability and exercise your calculation skills by solving Xiangqi puzzles.The puzzles from author's earlier books Xiangqi Puzzles One Move Kill, Two Moves Kill, Three Moves Kill and Four Moves Kill are consider easy level puzzles. "XIANGQI Puzzles Five Moves Kill" is a book where readers are prompted to find a checkmate or stalemate in five moves. The book consists of 280 medium level puzzles. These puzzles are for those players that were getting the easy problems pretty easy but are still struggling with the hard problems.Each puzzle is uniquely designed with positions that players are likely to encounter on the board. The main variations of the solutions to the puzzles are presented at the end of the book. The simple variations of the solution are not shown, the readers are expected to work it out by his own.Solving puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your Xiangqi's skill. For the beginners, simply learning the killing ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop their tactical skills.This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

The book: "Xiangqi: The Basic of Same Direction Cannon Opening; Every Move Explained" has more than 700 diagrams with every move explained. Readers can easily follow the diagram with explanation without referring to a real Xiangqi board and pieces.The book: "Xiangqi: The Basic of Same Direction Cannon Opening; Every Move Explained" consists of 3 main sections. The first section is an introduction about Same Direction Cannon Openings from Xiangqi's ancient manuals. As we learned, Same Direction Cannon Openings have begun more than thousand year ago. It was one of the most popular openings in old days.In the second section of this book, we started to learn the basic of Same Direction Cannon Openings in details. Readers can learn and understand Xiangqi Opening Principle through this book easily.In the final section, we learned from the actual matches played by Xiangqi Grandmasters. In this section, the Xiangqi Grandmasters have shown us how to use or against Same Direction Cannon Opening effectively. This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

One move kill is too easy for you? Then try this!Train your tactical ability and exercise your calculation skills by solving Xiangqi puzzles."XIANGQI Puzzles Two Moves Kill" is a book where readers are prompted to find a checkmate or stalemate in two moves. The book consists of 320 puzzles. Each puzzle is uniquely designed with positions that players are likely to encounter on the board. Answers to the puzzles are presented at the end of the book.Solving puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your Xiangqi's skill. For the beginners, simply learning the killing ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop their tactical skills.This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

XIANGQI Puzzles Four Moves KillTrain Your Tactical Thinking!Train your tactical ability and exercise your calculation skills by solving Xiangqi puzzles."XIANGQI Puzzles Four Moves Kill" is a book where readers are prompted to find a checkmate or stalemate in four moves. The book consists of 280 puzzles. Each puzzle is uniquely designed with positions that players are likely to encounter on the board. Answers to the puzzles are presented at the end of the book.Solving puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your Xiangqi's skill. For the beginners, simply learning the killing ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop their tactical skills.This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

Give your brain a workout the fun way.Train your tactical ability and exercise your calculation skills by solving Xiangqi puzzles."XIANGQI Puzzles Three Moves Kill Part 2" is a book where readers are prompted to find a checkmate or stalemate in three moves. The book consists of 228 puzzles. Each puzzle is uniquely designed with positions that players are likely to encounter on the board. Answers to the puzzles are presented at the end of the book.Solving puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your Xiangqi's skill. For the beginners, simply learning the killing ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop their tactical skills.This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

XIANGQI Puzzles Three Moves KillA puzzle to tease your mind!Train your tactical ability and exercise your calculation skills by solving Xiangqi puzzles."XIANGQI Puzzles Three Moves Kill" is a book where readers are prompted to find a checkmate or stalemate in three moves. The book consists of 280 puzzles. Each puzzle is uniquely designed with positions that players are likely to encounter on the board. Answers to the puzzles are presented at the end of the book.Solving puzzles is one of the most effective ways to improve your Xiangqi's skill. For the beginners, simply learning the killing ideas and enjoying the examples will help develop their tactical skills.This book can be studied by itself or used as a supplement to the author's earlier works: "Xiangqi For Absolute Beginners. Teach Yourself Xiangqi Step by Step."

Xiangqi is becoming more popular in Western countries due to the rise of China. China's extraordinary economic growth and active diplomacy are already attracted Westerners' interest. Westerners want to learn more about Chinese's culture. One of the easier approaches is by learning Xiangqi. Unfortunately, there is always not easy for a Westerner or non-Chinese speaking person to learn Xiangqi by his own. This book is designed for the person who is absolutely no knowledge or little knowledge in Xiangqi, and would like to learn it by his own. The structures of the book are well designed. There are divided into 5 main chapters, which are Xiangqi Fundamentals, Xiangqi Basic Kills, Xiangqi Basic Endgame, Xiangqi Basic Midgame and Xiangqi Opening. The sentences uses are simple and easy English. The reader can just easily follows the chapter and learns Xiangqi step by step. There are more than 300 diagrams have been placed such that it would be easy to cross reference the moves and the actual situation on the board. At the end of each chapter, it consists of self-test or puzzles to assess the reader's competency level. There are more than 130 puzzles and the answers are provided at the end of the book.At the end, the reader will be able to appreciate the Chinese culture through Xiangqi.Enjoy this wonderful game.