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Shinsaku Uesugi (上杉 晋作, Uesugi Shinsaku, born April 17, 1991 in Kyoto, Japan) is a Japanese chess player who holds the title of FIDE master. [1] He won the 40th Japanese Chess Championship in May 2007 and became the youngest ever national champion (16 years, 18 days old).
Khmer Krom, or Southern Khmer, is the first language of the Khmer of Vietnam, while the Khmer living in the remote Cardamom Mountains speak a very conservative dialect that still displays features of the Middle Khmer language. Khmer is primarily an analytic, isolating language. There are no inflections, conjugations or case endings.
Shogi (将棋, shōgi, English: / ˈ ʃ oʊ ɡ i /, [1] Japanese:), also known as Japanese chess, is a strategy board game for two players. It is one of the most popular board games in Japan and is in the same family of games as Western chess , chaturanga , xiangqi , Indian chess , and janggi .
[1] While there is some uncertainty, the prevailing view among chess historians is that chaturanga is the common ancestor of the board games chess, xiangqi (Chinese), janggi (Korean), shogi (Japanese), sittuyin (Burmese), makruk (Thai), ouk chatrang (Cambodian) and modern Indian chess. [1]
Only two are presently considered to be the national languages of sovereign states: Vietnamese in Vietnam, and Khmer in Cambodia. The Mon language is a recognized indigenous language in Myanmar and Thailand, while the Wa language is a "recognized national language" in the de facto autonomous Wa State within Myanmar.
Nguyễn Anh Khôi played for Vietnam in the Chess Olympiads: In 2016, at fourth board in the 42nd Chess Olympiad in Baku (+4, =4, -3), [7] In 2018, at fourth board in the 43rd Chess Olympiad in Batumi (+4, =6, -1). [8] In 2017, he was awarded the FIDE International Master (IM) title [9] and received the FIDE Grandmaster (GM) title two years ...
Vietnamese Cambodians refers to ethnic group of Vietnamese who live in Cambodia or it refers to Vietnamese who are of full or partial Khmer descent (mainly Khmer Krom in Mekong Delta, southern Vietnam nowadays, also often called as Khmer Mekong). According to Cambodian sources, in 2013, about 15,000 Vietnamese people live in Cambodia.
Absorption chess (also called cannibal chess, power absorption chess, or seizer's chess): Pieces gain the abilities of the pieces they capture. [45] [46] Andernach chess: A piece making a capture changes colour. ASEAN chess: Pawns start on the 3rd ranks. Queens can only move 1 square diagonally and Bishops only 1 square diagonally or 1 square ...