"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.
You've got it nicely, I guess noone could be insulted if a list of chess
variants boldly lists [[Chess]] at the top.