Epicness in Chinese Chess

Ok, it's me, again, once more. Look at the title. It contains the string "Epic". Does that remind you of my awesomeness? No? I forgot I had none of that. Time to bore people to death again I guess. So, what's this epicness about? A match between me and...

Wait. Didn't we agree I had no pie in "Epic"? (Note: Epic= pie + c, and therefore d epic/ jy is equivalent to d pie / jy. Read as " The epic by the JY is equivalent to the pie by the JY. Of course, I figure that approximately 0% of my readers know who/what JY is, but my estimate may be waaaaaayyy off...) But since I get the feeling I'm going to get pulverised if I add any more of this nonsense, let's proceed to the topic!

Hey, is it true that the more nonsense I post here the less readers I have? That's cool! I should post more of this kind of sentences then.

The Epic Match (TEM) was staged between somebody whose name starts with J and somebody whose name starts with a W. Ha! What convenience to type.

TEM began after J won W twice with 2 ma odds and 2 pao odds respectively. Logic says that TEM was staged with 2 rooks advantage. Which means the starting position is as follows:


J, who gave the 2 rooks advantage, had the counterprivilege to start first, and that is theorectically super for aggroing. However, what turned out was not aggro, but just an epic match of which the epicness will probably not tarnish over the next 2 days!

This blog post has been largely cancelled and the content has been shrunk by a mere 85%. Please do not start to scream. The remaining 33.33% of this post will be a rant about the trials and tribulations of attempting this feat (and failing) as well as excuses to why there is no analysis, and also as an attempt to stop complains, I will try to play a match with the J as mentioned above in this post, and then post a rough analysis, even though it wouldn't possibly be as fun.

Part 1 of the remainder: a rant about the madness. The game was a short 79 moves long, and I only recorded 77 (my very bad for sleeping halfway thru). Hence, we might be able to see that the game was copied wrongly on my part. (missing information). I would rant more, but I have to save something for part 2: excuses. So read on iff you are that bored.

Part 2: The excuses: 1) It was past lunchtime and hence that increases the sleepiness of a person. 2) The game was very intense and energy sapping, hence making me immensely tired. 3) This is one of my first tries at copying annotations. 4) Some of the moves were made at draggy paces (sleep once again comes in as a very important factor) and some at lightning speed just to catch people off guard. Whoosh! And 3 moves were made. Or something like that. 5) Cooperativeness of the players involved. They played by the rules and did not undo moves. What can I say? I lied, I guess.

Part 3: What's to come: I have found a very nice website (playok.com) which apparently hosts games from international chess to shogi to chinese chess to many other games (even card games). So, in order to improve on game analysis (not necessarily analysis of the best moves as the coolest moves). The plan is to convince J to play a match with me. And hope I don't suffer a crushing defeat at his imba hands.

Good day.